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sfgate | NEW YORK (AP) Toronto Maple Leafs forward Zach Hyman has been suspended two games by the NHL for a hit against Boston Bruins defenseman Charlie McAvoy.
Hyman will forfeit $24,194 in salary. This is the first career fine or suspension for Hyman.
Toronto lost to Boston 6-3 and is set to play at Carolina and Tampa Bay this week. | 2019-04-24T10:01:12Z | http://stats.sfgate.com/nhl/story.asp?i=20181209194238529792408&ref=hea&tm=&src= | Porn | Sports | 0.48123 |
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wordpress | Ice Prince Working With Top Rapper, Jay Z?
Rapper Ice prince posted the picture above on instagram with the caption “#Roc The story Loading… Ice|Hov”. Indeed more is to come, lets not forget about the speculated Ice Prince and Jay Z collaboration that rocked last year in respect to the D’usse Cognac brand ambassadorship.
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homestead | Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the American Committee on Africa, I want to thank the Special Committee Against Apartheid for the opportunity to appear today. These hearings come at a critical time in southern Africa. South Africa has established a policy of destabilizing the Front Line States which has wreaked havoc in the region. South African military forces still occupy parts of southern Angola, and Pretoria's troops regularly stage bloody raids on neighboring countries.
Recent press reports have suggested that the signing of the security pact between Mozambique and South Africa will bring peace to the region. But peace will not come to southern Africa until Namibia is independent and South Africa is free. As long as apartheid exists in South Africa, Pretoria will need weapons to maintain its power. This point was graphically illustrated last week when the South African Minister of Finance Owen Horwood announced that defense expenditure will rise by 21.4 percent in the coming year to $2.4 billion [R3.004 billion].
South Africa is now spending billions of dollars maintaining its power, including the purchase and production of armaments. The participation of Armscor in an armaments show in Chile this February is perhaps the most dramatic recent demonstration of the development of South Africa's military armaments manufacture capacity and Pretoria's ability to flout the international arms embargo. Not only is South Africa able to produce a variety of weapons for its own use, but South Africa is aiming at an export market in weapons of up to $121.2 million [R150 million] per year. Armscor even boasts that its weapons are battle tested. As one recent advertisement put it, "Born of necessity. Tested under fire."
The South African government seeks to give the impression that the apartheid regime is now self-sufficient in weapons. It even claims the United Nations arms embargo has helped South Africa develop its arms industry by forcing self-sufficiency.
The claim for South African's self-sufficiency in arms production does not hold up under scrutiny. The South African military, despite its much trumpeted weapons development program, remains dependent on foreign sources for advanced technology, oil and even trucks and aircraft. An estimated sixty percent by value of all automobiles are imported. The South African weekly Financial Mail recently noted, "SA's arms procurement problems are not solely a matter of money. Despite Armscor's achievements, there is a limit to what can be produced locally."
The reality is that the arms embargo has some significant leaks. These flow from two major weaknesses. The first is the refusal of Western countries including the U.S. to interpret and implement the arms embargo established under Resolution 418/77 in a forceful and effective manner. Thus in the U.S. so-called gray area items are consistently allowed to go to South Africa although their sales to Eastern Bloc countries are restricted. The second weakness is the exclusion from the embargo as established of far too many elements which have clear and direct military application, the most obvious being oil and nuclear technology.
The Reagan administration's policy of constructive engagement has already led to a significant relaxation of the arms embargo. Stressing the goal of regional stability the American government has now adopted a policy which they see as an "even handed" approach to all countries in the region. Thus the Reagan administration seeks to blame all sides equally for the violence in the region, ignoring the fact that the violence stems from apartheid. In reality there is no even handedness in the U.S.'s engagement in southern Africa; policy in the last three years has resulted in an increased South African ability to harass and dominate regionally.
The effect of the easing of the arms embargo, both in terms of the actual regulations and in terms of interpretation, has been documented in Military Exports to South Africa: A Research Report on the Arms Embargo by NARMIC. The study reveals that more than $28.3 million worth of military equipment was authorized for sale to South Africa for fiscal years 1981-1984, as compared to $25,000 for 1979.
Additional research needs to be done. One of the reports indicating a serious breach of the arms embargo that we at the American Committee on Africa have sought to investigate involves computers and missiles. The Washington Post in July 1981 reported that "an air-to-air missile similar to the U.S. Sidewinder that the South Africans are developing is guided by a U.S. made computer." At the time we wrote to then Secretary of State Alexander Haig asking about the report. The State Department replied, "Few details were provided in the story which makes an investigation of the case quite difficult." There has been no prosecution in this case nor more public information.
According to the authoritative manual, Janes Weapon Systems, 1983-84, South Africa is now producing and exporting the Kukri air-to-air missile which conforms to the Sidewinder Aero 3B. It was the Kukri air-to-air missile that formed the centerpiece of the South African display in Chile.
Even more disturbing is the report in the 1983-84 Military Balance, issued by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, that the South African Airforce possesses Sidewinders. This is the first time Sidewinders have appeared in the Military Balance for South Africa.
Obviously much of what happens in regards to the arms embargo and technology transfer never becomes public. But I would like to mention just a few cases.
The Council for Scientific & Industrial Research is a South African governmental body that conducts a wide range of research in such areas as ordinance development, guided missiles, specialty metals, nuclear research and many other military areas. It has a close relationship with Armscor. The Council has obtained several U.S. computers. The Council also has been increasing its activities abroad, opening a second office in the U.S. in 1980, and it has offices in the Federal Republic of Germany, England and France. Dr. Edward Teller, the U.S. physicist known as "the father of the atom bomb," visited South Africa in 1982 as a guest of CSIR. He was but one of many scientists from many countries to do so.
South Africa is seeking to make itself the regional "computer power." In March of this year, the International Federation of Information Processing was scheduled to hold its annual meeting in Cape Town. I have yet to see any reports of the results of this conference. But press reports in advance noted that the topic to be discussed was computers and the third world. Representatives of several African countries were invited. The Financial Mail commented, "SA could become the focus of a sub- Saharan computer fraternity... And the fact that the UN maintains a high-tech embargo against SA makes the move all the more noteworthy." I hope the Committee will pursue this matter perhaps meeting with the Geneva based International Federation for Information Processing in order to urge it to expel its South African affiliate.
Computers are widely advertised in South Africa. It is literally impossible to maintain end user verification. And even the smallest computers can have important military uses. For example, personal computers were used by the U.S. military in both Lebanon and Grenada. Under the export regulations for South Africa, personal computers are "denied for military or police entities, except on a case-by-case basis." It would be interesting to know what, if any, exceptions have been made, and how controls are exerted on items readily available in stores to businesses in South Africa.
One area that warrants increased study is in the nuclear field. In our opinion, it is clear that South Africa cannot be trusted to maintain military and civilian nuclear development in watertight compartments. Therefore any aid to nuclear development in South Africa has military implications. Since 1978 the U.S. has not supplied South Africa enriched uranium because of Pretoria's refusal to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty or accept full-scope safeguards. South African s nuclear power plant at Koeberg I began operation this month. Koeberg II is scheduled to be fueled in September and begin operation by the end of the year. The opening of the plant was delayed a year because of the extensive damage done by the African National Congress. The fuel for the Koeberg nuclear reactors was obtained with the help of two U.S. brokerage companies from French, Swiss and Belgian suppliers. The U.S. government has admitted that it knew in advance of this transaction and did nothing to stop it.
The Reagan administration sought closer nuclear collaboration with South Africa from the start. In May 1981, South African Secretary of Foreign Affairs Brand Fourie came to Washington and discussed nuclear cooperation with U.S. Assistant Secretary James Malone. In August 1981 a team of South African nuclear experts toured a U.S. uranium enrichment plant and in late October a team of top American nuclear experts toured South Africa's top secret uranium enrichment plant at Valindaba. By mid November reports leaked to the press that South Africa had obtained the enriched uranium needed to operate Koeberg.
I cannot go into all aspects of South Africa/U.S. nuclear collaboration. I would just like to mention two other disturbing deve1opments regarding Koeberg. In December it was learned that a $4.04 million [R5 million] maintenance contract will be split between the South African subsidiary of the U.S. firm Fluor and the French company Framatone. In addition, the U.S. company Mobil Oil is the exclusive supplier of lubricants to the Koeberg generators and to other critical equipment.
South Africa has not been able to obtain all its needs legally and has resorted to smuggling. Since the Reagan administration came to power in January 1981, there has been an intensified U.S. effort to keep arms and technology with possible military uses from Eastern bloc countries. Under the program "Operation Exodus", over 765 shipments of weapons or high technology goods had been seized by the end of 1982. And although the program was not designed to target goods going to South Africa, ten of these shipments were destined for South Africa and Namibia. Since that time there have been other seizures, including six planes bound for Namibia that were seized in northeastern Pennsylvania last August. Although the planes were seized over six months ago, U.S. attorneys refused to comment on whether the case is still under investigation, or whether there are any indictments. I would suggest that this committee might want to ask the U.S. government about this case. One must ask how many shipments are getting through undetected and how many of these would be stopped if the U.S. put the same emphasis on South Africa that it puts on other countries?
*An advanced DEC computer was shipped to South Africa and later re-exported to Sweden, allegedly en route to the Soviet Union. How was an export license for South Africa granted for this computer considered militarily important? A second question is raised by this case, the relationship between U.S. and South African intelligence agencies. Press reports talk of a "combined U.S.-S.A. investigation."
*Dieter Gerhardt, former commander of South Africa's naval port of Simonstown and recently convicted of spying, was actually arrested in New York after being lured to the United States and interrogated by the CIA for 11 days, according to the Daily Telegraph. This is a curious case of cooperation between South Africa and the U.S. and again raises questions about how much the U.S. actually knows about illegal arms sales to South Africa.
*Private South African security firms use sophisticated U.S. equipment, and an inkless U.S. fingerprinting system is now available that "can be used for ID cards or by police on the scene of a crime."
The South African government continues to depend on foreign arms and technology. South Africa is reportedly looking for a new generation of fighter planes. Secrecy continues to be the order of the day.
The South African government's policy of destabilization of the Front Line States, continued illegal occupation of Namibia and repressive actions inside South Africa itself demonstrates that apartheid continues to be a threat to peace. The Reagan policy of constructive engagement has contributed to the arming of apartheid. | 2019-04-26T08:01:51Z | http://richardknight.homestead.com/armsun84.html | Porn | Business | 0.542607 |
wordpress | ə-ˈsai:d: words spoken by an actor to the people watching a play, that the other characters in the play do not hear.
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature. For anything so o’redone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as ‘twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, scorn her image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Richard Burbage (1567 – 1619) played Hamlet when the play debuted in (about) 1602. The performance is legendary and it must have amused him to be giving this advice to the actors of his own company on the stage that he and his brother Cuthbert built and owned.
Burbage more or less grew up on stage. His father, James, a joiner (ie: a building contractor) from Stratford who shortly became a theatrical impresario, and also founded the first successful permanent playhouse, was a famous theatrical entrepreneur. This background gave him gave him a real head start in the constantly changing and growing London theatre world. Many scholars believe that he worked backstage as well as making his way through the ranks of the younger players, possibly playing female roles.
Burbage got around, possibly working with the Earl of Leicester‘s company in the mid 1580s when he was still a teenager. (Could he have visited Elsinore with Will Kempe in 1586?) He probably was acting with the Admiral’s Men in 1590, with Lord Strange’s Men in 1592, and with the Earl of Pembroke’s Men in 1593; but most famously he was the star of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men which became the King’s Men.
What seems to have made Burbage’s acting style significant was that it was not only a stark departure from the ranting of Alleyn and the antics of Kempe, but that he made the effort to assume the identity of his character and maintained that identity not only when delivering his lines, but in all his other stage work as well. Which is to say that he stayed in the scene and supported it throughout. Actors in the Alleyn or Kempe mold, who primarily sought center stage and largely ignored the action when they weren’t in the middle of it, were simply not as believable as Burbage.
Once he reached an age where he could compete for the major roles, Burbage swiftly became more popular than Alleyn, his closest competitor. He played the leads in Hamlet, Othello, Richard III, and King Lear. In addition, he played the lead in Jonson’s Volpone, and Subtle in The Alchemist. For John Marston he played The Malcontent, for John Webster he starred in The Duchess of Malfi) and in The Maid’s Tragedy for Beaumont and Fletcher .
For all his success onstage, Burbage did not die a wealthy man. He left his wife an estate of 300 pounds, not an inconsiderable sum, but nothing compared to the fortune that allowed Ned Alleyn to establish his famous college. Also unlike Alleyn, Burbage never quit the stage. On the other hand, when he died in 1619, there was such outpour of grief that it threatened to overshadow the official mourning for the death of Queen Anne ten days prior.
Dr. Peter Hodges holds a BFA in Acting from the University of Washington (class of ‘75), an M.A. in Directing and a Ph. D. in Literature from The City Graduate Center of The City University of New York City, New York (1986 and 1992). Dr. Pete (as he is sometimes known among his friends) is a 30 year veteran of the Wall Street wars, author and producer of more than a dozen plays, a novel, and a critical study of Sadakichi Hartmann’s plays.
It just keeps getting better and better. I am looking forward to the next entry!
It’s up! I think I’d rather have dinner with Mr. Burbage than with Mr. Shaxper!
According to Jonson, Shaxper was good company, just not strong in Latin or Greek.
It’s official, you are a fan. Stay tuned.
What is Shakespeare’s First Folio? | 2019-04-24T18:36:55Z | https://islandshakespearefestival.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/the-passionate-pilgrim-1-14-richard-burbage/comment-page-1/ | Porn | Reference | 0.19953 |
livejournal | Well, there we are folks.
A billion thanks to philled2thebrim for watching the kittens!
The drive down was a bit of a pain -- it ended up taking 14 hours from when I left my place in Fremont with 30mins loading the car, an hour having dinner at Harris Ranch (mmmmm steak), and probably another hour or so of getting gas in various places. It was all sorts of rainy and we went by a number of people who had spun out and were sitting either in the middle of the roadway or off to the side with their hazard lights on. Additionally, traffic stopped dead a couple of times.
Despite that, I was *REALLY* awake when we got there. I had to read for about an hour or so before I hit a point where I wanted to sleep.
The drive up was also irksome. We were departing from farther North, but it still took about 8 hours to get to meerkat's with severe traffic on the 5. We got off at Kettleman City, figuring we'd get some food and wait out the traffic a bit. So did everyone else. Thanks to a bit of craftiness on my part, we managed to get In-N-Out and avoid the worst of the crowd.
Apparently there were a bunch of people driving North from LA to see an Oakland Raiders game. That was kinda weird.
Traffic on 152 was sparse, but very, very foggy. That slowed me down a lot.
After dropping meerkat off, I had an uneventful drive home.
I really miss LA. Saw zweeb and greenbuttercup. We played Guitar Hero: World Tour & Rock Band 2 -- neither of which I've played before. Then we started on Mario Kart Wii.
gemlikeflame: I understand what you mean about it and I've since bought a copy 8) Great fun!
I finished off Outliers. Good book. A little longer than it needed to be and his thesis, as always, is one you have to take with a grain of salt. He basically says that success is hard work by way of doing a lot of something to get good at it. The successful people are the ones who get lucky in some way or another and start getting good at it before everyone else such that they have a leg up on everyone else. He illustrates this with computer programmers, Jewish immigrants, and hockey players quite nicely.
I'm retackling Traffic. It's starting to be a book that I trudge through rather than read, sadly.
It was nice to see you as well! You (and meekrat, of course) are welcome anytime!
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wordpress | Here is our prayer calendar for the month of March. To print it out, right click on the picture and select “Open in a New Tab/Window.” Then you can go up to “File” and “Print.” Thank you for continuing to pray for us and our ministry! Please share with your family, friends, and church. | 2019-04-23T18:18:55Z | https://swainsonamission.wordpress.com/2017/02/ | Porn | Reference | 0.589575 |
livejournal | Apparently, some down-on-their-luck friends of my grandparents decided to park their trailer on my grandparents' property in Ohio and live there for a while. The man-of-the-trailer was apparently a medical supplies salesman. After a short time, the family disappeared, but the trailer stayed. My dad, in junior high or high school at the time, nosed into the trailer and found, among other medical supplies, a fetus-in-a-jar!
Well, how cool, he thought. I must take this to my biology teacher at school. He'll be really impressed! | 2019-04-23T00:05:10Z | https://cherdt.livejournal.com/88620.html | Porn | Kids | 0.412747 |
blogs | Cheshire East is a new unitary authority with all the seats up for election on May 5th. At present there is a substantial Conservative majority. There are 59 Conservatives, there are 12 Lib Dems and six Labour councillors.
Conservative Candidates at the forthcoming Cheshire East Council election stand for sound financial management and an affordable level of Council Tax; honest, fair & professional representation of all resident's opinions and making sure that everyone gets the absolute best level of services from our local authority. Conservatives work as a team; listening, taking action and getting things done.
Priorities for a Conservative Cheshire East are to keep the Council Tax down, maintaining services, running the Council efficiently, to cut out 'back office' red tape, to retain and maintain our open spaces, to champion the needs of all residents young and old, to make sure our community becomes cleaner, greener & safer and to continue with the major investment plans already under way and to see them through to fruition. Don't forget that a Conservative Cheshire East has kept your Council Tax down, no increase this year and will keep it affordable over the next four years and is also spending an extra £2 million to repair potholes after damage caused by the worst winter for 30 years.
Conservatives standing on 5th May are a mixture of tried and tested experienced Councillors as well as keen and energetic people from all backgrounds who are new to local politics. They all share common traits of wanting the best for their Ward and residents at the same time as helping to build a more prosperous, pleasant and high achieving wider Cheshire East community for us all. A vote for a Conservative Candidate on 5th May is a vote for an affordable Council Tax, sound financial management, maintaining good front line services and a cleaner, greener safer Cheshire East. | 2019-04-24T08:17:24Z | https://conservativehome.blogs.com/localgovernment/2011/04/the-battle-for-cheshire-east.html | Porn | News | 0.429031 |
livejournal | Firstly coffee, then pop to the shops to buy veg, chicken and sugar.
The some pots and put some washing in.
Then the gym and work out fo a few ours, and then a swim and sauna.
Then home to deal with another box of nonsense from front room.
And then a quiet night in with a good book, good food, some nice music and i might allow myself a beer.
Tomorrow will see me attack more of the front room YAY and tidy and hoover my room.
and i might even pop into the new health centre today to find out how i register with them.
so a positive start to the day and hopefully later i will have an hour or so to meditate some more. | 2019-04-21T10:23:44Z | https://technomouse.livejournal.com/324813.html | Porn | Home | 0.477847 |
wordpress | Happy New Year! We hope you all had a happy and healthy holiday season, and are feeling optimistic about the new year. While we are excited for what 2011 will bring, we also find ourselves reflecting on the year we’ve left behind. As we reflect on the year that was 2010, we have mixed emotions of both gratitude and loss. In the field, it was the most challenging year to date. In the community, it was the most successful. We suppose as is true with any growing business, the lowest lows and highest highs can both be achieved in the same year.
Let’s start with a few of our success stories in 2010. In March, we won a brand new, top-of-the-line, state of the art website, courtesy of Oxiem. (A website that could otherwise have never been afforded by a small farm.) With a short essay, we convinced Oxiem that a farm would be a unique industry that could be greatly impacted by a new website, complete with online purchasing. Today, we are happy to announce the launch of our brand new website (www.waywardseed.com), with purchasing and all the luxuries that Oxiem afforded us. Thank you Oxiem!
Secondly, and more importantly, we won a grant from the Wallace HUFED Center. The grant, worth $25,000 is to study the feasibility of a cooperative working center for farmers. Our intent is to determine the feasibility of a cooperative regional food storage, processing and distribution facility in Madison County, Ohio. If determined to be viable, the goal of the center would be to provide a consistent supply of affordable, locally-grown fresh food to the greater Columbus, Ohio community. We expect to begin work on the grant soon after the new year, and will complete our study by the end of August this year.
We can’t talk about our successes without mentioning the Market at 15th & High, the largest farmers’ market of its kind on The Ohio State University campus. Together with the Wexner Center for the Arts, Wayward Seed organized and facilitated a weekly market from May through October serving campus area student, faculty and residents. We are excited to begin our second year in the Spring of 2011 and we’re looking forward to serving the Campus community for years to come.
As for what’s ahead, we’ve been diligently planning for 2011 over the past six weeks–more so than any previous year. We’ve reviewed our crops, the planting schedule, equipment, markets, staffing–we’ve reviewed and debated every detail and we’re getting closer to what we believe will be the plan for a successful season for Wayward Seed and its CSA members.
With all of this said, we’re very excited for the year to come! Short of knowing what Mother Nature will bring this year, it might just be our best one yet. | 2019-04-19T04:15:55Z | https://awellfedseed.wordpress.com/2011/01/ | Porn | Business | 0.559865 |
wordpress | Module 7 Blog Topic: Apart from campaign outcomes, what, if anything, can a public relations practitioner learn from the evaluation of a campaign?
Planning – Central management function. Determine objectives and strategies.
Assessment of campaign’s budget – Was too much spent? Are the costs justifiable?
Assessment of all areas used in the campaign – Were all efforts involved effective?
Assessment of objectives – Were all goals and objectives met?
There are many measurement techniques used in PR campaigns that are used from a variety of sources. Wilcox et al. (2013, p.128) states “sophisticated techniques are used, including computerised news clip analysis, survey sampling, quasi-experimental designs in which the audience is divided into groups that see different aspects of a public relations campaign, and attempts to correlate efforts directly with sales.” Macnamara (2002) explains the PR practitioner will also learn from these methods that the overall value of a campaign can be measured, and most importantly, the evaluation stage is the only stage which can determine the ultimate accountability measure; Return on Investment (ROI). The definition of ROI (Entrepreneur Encyclopaedia 2014) is the most common profitability ratio with many ways to be measured. A ROI has been increasingly used by PR practitioners to demonstrate campaign results to decision-makers and other stakeholders (Curtis 2013).
With all the above mentioned evaluation techniques and information available, a PR practitioner can gain a significant range of knowledge, as well as gain a well-informed perspective for future events/campaigns.
Module 6 Blog Topic: Using your blog as an example, explain how you have used presentation to reflect professionalism. Justify your post in the context of public relations.
The ever-growing ways to present information in different language styles makes it very difficult to get a target audience to interpret what is actually intended. Emails, advertising, SMS, Facebook status updates, Tweets, the list goes on… all can be shortened or abbreviated informal messages. In contrast, formal educational sources such as textbooks, scholarly journal articles and so forth can be academically written to the point that they end up simply creating confusion for many readers. A definition of a blog (Macmillan 2014) is a web site of posts that can be both informally and formally written to express an individual’s opinion, interests and personal beliefs in a conversation style.
In my previous blog I act in the context of a PR practitioner for a flying fox charity discussing the Hendra virus (WordPress 2014). I easily could’ve included in the presentation pictures of infected dying animals to gain sympathy from the reader, or added in my elected charity’s logo in order to promote it, or even add an attractive graphic to make my personal blog look more professional… but in my opinion that would’ve been unethical from a PR standpoint and taken the reader away from the blog’s serious key message and title, Hendra virus: more research needed.
The presentation of my previous blog reflects PR professionalism by leaving out distracting graphics/fonts, and instead ethically focuses on the clear brief message, not only the potential benefits that could be gained by my charity. The blog is free of spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, is just over 300 words long which met my assessment criteria and is in a conversational style which intends to prevent the reader from getting bored. Furthermore my arguments/opinions are justified with references, PR ethical reasoning as well as a section available to discuss further points of view and comments about my blog. | 2019-04-24T09:59:52Z | https://shelleemccarthy.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Business | 0.690849 |
wordpress | I took this back in the early 80's from a small plane. Those days you were allowed to fly around Manhattan... I just always expected those two little towers to be there didn't you?
I am emotional. I was inspired to write this after I read a post this morning by Thrify Decor Chick; touched by her photos at Ground Zero. Now my mind is flooded with memories of Jinny and Lisa…I miss them. They made me a better person. Exerpts from a book written by high school friend Andrea Raynor called A Voice that Calls you Home swirl in my mind as I think about that heart wrenching day known simply as 9/11. In her book, Andrea shares her emotional journey including her days at ground zero blessing body parts and later, her battle with breast cancer. | 2019-04-22T07:04:32Z | https://theassistant.wordpress.com/2010/09/ | Porn | Reference | 0.818988 |
wordpress | mentioned were ones I’ve encountered through my years. Thanks Gene.
librarian in Ohio for many years.
middle of the book if it had less than fifty pages.
of that interior stamp, even if it had lost its cover or end pages.
complicated maze of instructions (typically published in the newspaper) as to which stamps were valid at any given time.
contributions from visitors to the web site are helping expand the database and ensure these interesting genealogical documents get properly archived.
Adding images to your family history should be part of every genealogist’s repertoire. Images like maps, pedigree charts, diagrams, and photos add interest and a personal touch to your research. But how many of you have thought about postcards?
Sometimes you don’t have an image of your grandfather visiting the courthouse, but you can still spice up your family history with a postcard image of that courthouse. In my case, for example, I don’t have a photo of my parents sitting on the steps of the high school where they graduated back in the 1940s, but I was able to find a postcard of the school that dated to that era.
You might be surprised how many post cards there are out there. E-bay is an excellent place for finding them.
Source Information: Ancestry.com. Historical Postcards Collection, c. 1893-1963 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2006. Original data: Mary Martin Postcards (www.MaryLMartin.com), Perryville, MD, USA.
Ancestry’s collection even has an old postcard of the church my great-grandparents belonged to in Little Rock-and over 500 postcards of a variety of Arkansas sites. I especially liked the 1915 card of the old Confederate Soldiers Home, which has long since been torn down. The image includes the back side of the card, with the written message was written, along with the old stamp and the postmark.
So look around your relatives’ houses, poke around flea markets, search the Internet, peruse e-Bay, and check out Ancestry.com for images to fill in those gaps in your family’s pictorial history.
Do you have a digitized photograph that is nice, but has specks or small cracks in the background? If so, open the file in Adobe Photoshop. Next, check to make sure your tools toolbar is visible (click “window”, if there isn’t a checkmark by “tools”, click it). On the tools toolbar there is a clone stamp tool (the icon looks like a rubber stamper) that you click to select. Notice the bar under the pull down menus now reflects all the clone tool options. Move your mouse near an imperfect spot (the size of the circle is controlled by the brush button at the top). You may choose to play with the options to get what works best for you and the photo. Caution – in Photoshop you can only undo the last step. Place the circle over an area that looks generally how the background “under” the imperfection should look. While holding down the ALT key, left click your mouse. Now move the circle over the imperfection (or part of it) and click. A copy/clone of the ALT+click background replaces the imperfection. You can repeat the steps as needed. This generally works great with backgrounds because, as a rule, they are not too intricate. This method may also work to some extent on the subjects but is it much trickier.
Email is such a “quick and easy” way to communicate – no stamps or LD fees. Because of this, many a time-squeezed researcher has dashed off an email note without much thought to the “old standards” such as punctuation, spelling, etc. When one of these emails is received by a researcher that is just as time squeezed, they are likely to put the poorly written missives toward the bottom of their “reply to” list. Be truthful now – when you are organizing your reply list, do you normally put folks who can’t be bothered to write clearly at the top of your list? | 2019-04-19T12:30:47Z | https://gregathcompany.wordpress.com/tag/stamp/ | Porn | Reference | 0.08448 |
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Nice to see you again and I am thrilled to hear that you are well and happy. All the very best to you and yours.
It’s easy to get distracted, especially with all that you’ve been doing. I find it’s easier to keep blogging if I set up scheduled topics, so when gets crazy I can remain on track by posting the topic for the date. Book reviews, author spotlight, archaic sayings are my mainstay. | 2019-04-24T10:32:34Z | https://wantoncreation.wordpress.com/2016/10/17/in-which-i-accidentally-abandoned-my-blog/ | Porn | Reference | 0.285104 |
wordpress | Davy Jones left a legacy of music with his band called, The Monkees, and later on his own. His passing rode through the California press with the same fervor as did his life.
The small carrot, broccoli, and beet seeds we’ve potted are sprouting in 2.5 inch plastic pots that incubate by the kitchen light overnight. Once green stems rise from the dirt, we take them outside to fend for themselves in these warm California days. If it gets cold overnight, sometimes we coddle and bring them back in, trying for the first time ever to grow our own food.
So busy becoming an apprentice gardener that I’ve left the computer screen to spend my sunny days in dirt.
The basil shown here is grown by a friend in Kentucy whose summer crop is wild. Our small bucket of basil doesn’t yet compare as we have been fending off feral chickens and so succumbed to starting the young seeds indoors before moving them out in tall pots. But neither of these is Holy Basil.
Holy Basil, with it’s second name, Tulsi or Tulasi, is from the Lamiaceae family. It is cultivated as a medicinal plant and used in Ayurveda for its adaptogen qualities — helping headaches, stress, inflammation and more. It has, for centuries not only treated illness, but flavored food and been observed by many as a powerful and healing plantlife.
Incredible sky, washed with ochre and yellows as though mined from the ground and swept into the landscape, the broom marking the pallor of the waves.
This is how it looks to settle into a life. The water foams as it pulls back further from the sand to rest from the push and pull of the daily grind. The sky races to catch the weighted day and the clouds rush in to convene on the passing time now coming to a close.
The orange, lime, pomegranate, and fig trees that I water in our yard would shudder to see this photo of an apple orchard.
Had the writers of ‘seeing through a glass darkly’ known of screen doors, perhaps they would understand about the squinting that takes place when trying to peer through these tiny webs.
Moving across the country, starting work in a new geographical location and riding the roads that wind between who I was and who I am becoming is exhausting, even with eight hours of sleep. Settling in and being unsettled vary. Perhaps a few cold days signalling winter and a screen-less window might help.
Prone to sea-sickness, I never liked our Saturday travels to the Long Beach Pier where we’d load the 16 foot boat into the lapping sea and climb in. I wished I’d been reading in my room rather than clutching my belly as I leaned out the side of the boat to expel whatever breakfast was rocking inside. But I went anyway, filled with salty air and wind, hooking the baits gills and casting it into the waters with my fishing pole. Age eight can be a tender time. The images seared onto that child’s script carry through decades and surface on Superbowl Sunday when for no reason, I remember the bait flapping on the boat’s floor while I squirm to grab it’s slimy and translucent self.
North Carolina winters spin between cold and ice with either clear or frosty mist-filled days. Callie (or Cali) has no similar claim on what is meant to be cold weather. This February winter is shaped by the Santa Ana winds that dry whatever moisture arrives in scattered showers. None of those rains harden like the ice in Amsterdam but roll instead into the parched and cracked winter soil.
In this new wild west life, neighbors with BB guns pop their own warbling birds for the sake of dinner. | 2019-04-18T22:37:59Z | https://callieboundroadtrip.wordpress.com/category/california/page/2/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.482841 |
wordpress | The trustees have pleasure in presenting their report and the financial statements of the charity for the year ending 31 December 2017. The organisational structure, administration details and governance of the charity are set out later in this report while the activities of the church form the first part.
This year was one of celebrating the creative arts, their use in mission and how they reflect both the human and divine. Declared the Year of the Arts, 2017 saw displays of painting, textiles and sculpture, from both renowned artists and members of the congregation. The exhibitions were used as a springbopr a series of sermons in Lent and for celebrating both the glory of God and the creative abilities of their makers.
Away from the Arts, this year was again a busy one for the Parish with regular and special services, distinguished visiting preachers, concerts and visitors from all over the world who came to see the renowned medieval monuments. Thousands of youngsters from local schools, their teachers, friends and families visited St Mary’s, and its daughter church Christchurch, for Harvest, Christmas and Christingle services. There was again an emphasis on mission and outreach, particularly on Church Without Walls initiatives. The Holywell Community continued their service to both church and community.
St Mary’s with its daughter church, Christchurch, aims to provide regular public worship and the provision of sacred space for personal prayer and contemplation, as well as carrying out pastoral work such as visiting the sick and bereaved, teaching Christianity through sermons and small groups, promoting Christianity through events and services. The church also aims to care for its fine collection of both historic medieval monuments and newly-created works of art.
The year started where 2016 had finished – with the newly-installed Jesse Window being used in a series of sermons by the parish priest and Prior, the Revd Canon Mark Soady, when he explored how its iconography reflects both Biblical theology and our lives today. The first exhibition of the year was that of textile artist Jacqui Parkinson, who explored some of the passages in the Bible that mention angels. During Lent, Nigel Robert Pugh’s exhibition of paintings of the Stations of the Cross formed both an opportunity to ‘walk the Via Dolorsa’ and to look at the images and what messages we can draw out for today during a series of Evensong addresses.
In May, textile art was back on the agenda, with the exhibition of quilts created by local schoolchildren to mark the centenary of the First World War. They were on display during the service of remembrance for the Monmouthshire Regiment, held in St Mary’s that month. This was followed in August by an exhibition of the work of Dalene West. In September, to coincide with the annual Abergavenny Food Festival, the Bible Society’s exhibition of Creation Art was staged. The series of exhibitions ended with that of work created by members of the Abergavenny parishes, showing a rich seam of talent in the area.
In August, St Mary’s Choir hosted a Festival of Liturgical Music, which saw visiting choirs singing music from different centuries at daily Evensong services. The choirs included Academia Musica, the Ethlbert Consort, from Herefordshire, and the Icosa Choir from Manchester, as well as St Mary’s Priory Choir.
The arts theme was extended away from the Church itself, when the Mothers’ Union spent a day at Llangasty Retreat Centre exploring the themes in Holman Hunt’s Light of the World.
The Revd Sarah Gillard-Faulkner served as Sub-Prior and Deacon of Abergavenny, while continuing her work as a prison chaplain, until the end of May when she left the Parish to take up a full-time position as a prison chaplain in the Midlands. In October, the Revd Tom Bates was licensed to the Parish as Associate Priest, having been admitted to the Holywell Community as Sub-Prior in August. In June, the Revd Jeff Pearse was ordained Priest at Newport Cathedral.
In its fourth year, the Holywell Community saw a change of members, with Brother Michael Topple leaving to move back to Colchester and Brother Simon Pratt leaving to continue his music degree. Sister Jennii Shaw was joined in August by Sister Joanna Hollins. The Community works both in the Church and the wider community, running all-age worship, visiting schools, and volunteering at a centre for young people in the town and at the Little Footprints playgroup. Their wide range of duties included visiting the sick, gardening at the Tithe Barn and Church, serving at regular and special services and acting as Verger at weddings and funerals.
Later in the month, local schools used the church for their Christingle and Christmas services – thousands of youngsters, their families and teachers visiting the church in the space of two weeks.
Acts of worship, including some of the Benedictine Offices, were celebrated on almost every day of the year, and pastoral care continued throughout, in particular, the visiting of, and on occasions taking Communion to, parishioners who through sickness or age were unable to come to church. The average attendance at the main services at the churches was 62.5, and the number recorded on the Electoral roll for both churches on 31 December 2017 was 216.
In addition to our regular services, we enable our community to celebrate and thank God in the milestones of the journey through life. Through baptism we welcome new disciples into the life of God’s family and in marriage public vows are exchanged with God’s blessing. Through funeral services friends and family express their grief and give thanks for the life which is now complete in this world and commit their loved one into God’s keeping. This year, we celebrated 17 baptisms and seven weddings in the Parish. There were 47 funerals.
Ecumenically, the parish participated fully in the Abergavenny Council of Churches, including the now-annual ecumenical Christmas carol service.
Much of the parishes’ mission and outreach work was organised by the Abergavenny Anglican Churches Together group (AACT), established during 2012 with members drawn from all four churches in Canon Soady’s incumbency and co-ordinated through the Joint Wardens’ Meetings.
Contributing to the Bishop of Monmouth’s Lent Appeal.
The Church Without Walls initiative saw members of the public offered Ashing on Ash Wednesday; shoe polishing to commuters at the railway station on Maundy Thursday; and the Walking Nativity through busy Saturday morning Christmas shoppers with two donkeys and members of the congregation dressed up as the Holy Family, angels, shepherds and kings, singing carols and praising the Lord. Also in December, members of the congregations sang carols in care and nursing homes and in local pubs. In addition, two craft days were held for youngsters – one at Easter and one before the Walking Nativity – which were attended by children from both the congregations and Little Footprints.
St Mary’s Priory Choir went on their annual Singing Week in July as choir-in-residence at Rochester Cathedral, singing increasingly complex pieces, including Mass for Four Voices by Tallis, and works by Bairstow, Howells and Mendelssohn.
St Mary’s was visited by people from all over the world and from nearer home, with many groups such as U3A, local history organisations, Mothers Union and other church groups booking tours to learn about the collection of medieval monuments in the church – said to be one of the finest in the country – and to sit quietly in a church which has been a place of prayer for nearly 1,000 years. Many people visited to view the newly-installed Jesse Window.
The church bells, described as the finest ring of 10 bells in Christendom, were rung on Sundays, at funerals and weddings. They were also rung by seven visiting groups of ringers. In September, the All Wales 8-bell Striking Competition was held at St Mary’s, a competition between all the Welsh dioceses – won by the Llandaff & Monmouth ringers.
A number of concerts, for both the Church and outside organisations, took place at St Mary’s, including St Mary’s Priory Choir’s sacred concert on Good Friday; and concerts by Crickhowell Choral Society and Gwent Bach Society.
The Priory Centre provided the venue for various fundraising activities and celebrations, including an auction evening, hosted by Roy Noble, in aid of the St Peter’s, Llanwenarth Citra, restoration fund. We also provided refreshments during Abergavenny Food Festival. The Centre is used for, among other events, meetings, conferences, blood donor sessions, parties and rehearsals of the Rock Choir.
The Incumbent is the Reverend Canon Mark Soady. He was assisted during part of the year by the Revd Sarah Gillard-Faulkner, before she left to pursue full-time prison chaplaincy. The clergy team at 31 December included the Revd Tom Bates and the Revd Jeff Pearse. Canon Soady is also assisted by the members of the Holywell Monastic Community.
The worship in the parish has been made possible through the on-going contribution of our Licensed Lay Ministers David Meredith and Gaynor Parfitt; retired ministers the Revd Frances Buxton , the Revd Malcolm Lane, the Revd Canon Roger Williams and the Revd Canon Andrew Willie.
Supporting the work of other charities through, among others, the Mothers Union and AACT’s Mission and Outreach Committee.
Monies were raised by freewill offertory, fundraising activities and specific appeals. These were used to support the work and administration of the churches and wider mission. Volunteers, who helped at each act of worship to support the clergy, have donated their time. The churches will continue with their acts of worship and pastoral care during 2018 and will continue actively to try to increase its Electoral Roll, through its mission work in the community.
The activities of the committees and groups within the churches continued during the year. The monies raised contributed to the general income of the churches. These activities are expected to continue during 2018. All those involved in group activities and who assist with the main functions of the churches are volunteers who have freely donated their time, energy and skills. In order to continue to foster increasing unity between the different Churches and congregations within Canon Soady’s Incumbency, regular meetings of the Wardens from all four Churches were held.
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) is not a body corporate, its composition, procedure and powers being regulated by the Constitution of the Church in Wales as amended from time to time by its Governing Body set up under Section 13(1) of the Welsh Church Act 1914. Elections are held at an Annual Vestry Meeting which must take place on or before 30th April each year. All persons whose names are entered on the Electoral Roll are entitled to vote and stand for election. Before assuming office, every member of the PCC publicly makes a declaration that he or she will be bound by the Constitution. The Members and Officers of the PCC, including the Incumbent, on appointment, become Trustees of the ‘Parish of Abergavenny Parochial Church Council Charity Trust’.
Property administered by the Priory Trustees includes the Priory Centre, the Tithe Barn and the Curate’s House. The latter two have been purchased in recent years and their freehold values are shown in the Accounts of this Charity.
The St Mary’s Winston Appeal also works under the auspices of the PCC and its accounts are also kept separate but consolidated with those of St Mary’s and Christchurch within the Charity Accounts presented with this report.
Commercial operations undertaken in the Priory Centre and the Tithe Barn were administered by The St Mary’s Priory House Company Limited, a Service Company registered with Companies House and in which the Priory Trustees, on behalf of the PCC and the Parish of Abergavenny Parochial Church Council Charity Trust, held 51% of the shares. The remaining 49% were held by the St Mary’s Priory Development Trust (Charity No: 107744) a separate, but related, Charity set up by the Priory Trustees in 1999. The St Mary’s Priory House Company Ltd ceased to trade on 6 October 2017 and is in the process of being wound up. The St Mary’s Priory Trustees have now assumed full responsibility for the continuing use of the facilities in both the Priory Centre and the Tithe Barn.
The PCC has conducted its own review of the major risks to which the Charity is exposed and systems have been established to mitigate those risks. The risks facing the Charity include the state of repair of the Churches and the financial requirements to meet its stated activities, including payment of its Annual Parish Share, bearing in mind the fall in the numbers of regular worshippers and the reduction in regular giving. The structure of the Churches is continually monitored by the Fabric committee and the Church architect, and the finances are controlled by careful budgeting and encouragement and appeals to the worshippers and visitors.
The Churches are run entirely by volunteers as the clergy are remunerated by another charity from the Parish Share payments made by all the Churches in the Diocese. Without the work of these volunteers, who, for example, enable St Mary’s to be kept open every day for members of the public to visit and to pray, the Churches would not function.
While the vast majority of those employed on the site were employees of the Priory House Company Limited, until that company ceased trading, as of December 2017 the Charity only employed one, the organist. The PCC’s policy is to pay employees at least the Living Wage.
Regular inspections and maintenance of both Churches, plus the other buildings and the grounds, were carried out during the year as required. Minor works following the receipt of the latest Quinquennial Report for St Mary’s have continued.
The first phase in the re-ordering of the Lewis Chapel was completed, following an extended period of environmental monitoring, with the move of the Church’s 15th Century wooden Jesse Effigy to a new position at the east end of the Chapel, underneath the new Jesse Window installed in 2016. To support the Effigy in its new position a wooden plinth was designed, erected and installed by Joachim Tantau, based in Hamburg. To complement the plinth a new altar, credence table and lectern, all to the same generic design, have also been commissioned from Joachim Tantau. The works were celebrated at a special service on 21 November when the new altar was dedicated to St Joseph.
Having successfully applied for a Home Office Grant to fund the work, new security cameras were installed at key locations, both internal and external, around the Priory Site to supplement the previous equipment. The extended cover has already demonstrated its value by assisting the police following an attempted break-in at the Vicarage and in apprehending the person responsible for a robbery in the Church.
The Church had successfully applied in 2016 for a grant from the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Scheme for full repairs to the Lewis Chapel Roof and some associated works. A total of £96,000 was initially awarded. Following a rigorous tendering exercise, work commenced in August 2017 when the North Slope slates were removed. This revealed major deterioration of nearly all 24 rafters at their interface with the wall plate and evidence of re-use of medieval timbers from previous versions of the roof when the present roof was erected in the early 19th As a result, an extensive programme of new works was designed, approved and installed to make good the deterioration while maintaining the integrity of the earliest timberworks. To cover the additional costs, further successful fund- raising was undertaken and grants of £2,000 from the All Churches Trust, £5,000 from the Diocese of Monmouth and an additional £14,000 (taking their total to £110,000) from the LPOW Roof Repair Scheme, were obtained. This was sufficient to allow the south slope to be stripped to reveal no problems with the rafters at that side, both slopes to be re-slated and all associated water goods to be replaced. However, some of the originally planned ancillary works will now have to be undertaken in future years. The Practical Completion stage of the scheme was reached in mid-December.
A number of major schemes are planned for 2018, assuming sufficient funding can be secured. It is also anticipated the next Quinquennial Inspection of St Mary’s will be undertaken in the second half of 2018 which will help to set the agenda for an on-going programme of enhancements, renewals repairs and maintenance.
While minor repairs, as identified in the Quinquennial Report, were undertaken at Christchurch, the major project undertaken was the repainting of the exterior of the church, together with minor repairs to some window frames. During the work, wet rot was found in the woodwork underneath the east window. This has been made safe but the frame of this window, the largest in the church, will need to be repaired/replaced in 2018, as will the interior wooden wall panelling and floorboards underneath it.
The level of direct voluntary contributions at each act of worship, excluding tax reclaimed through Gift Aid, amounted to £76,814 (2016: £78,561), a 2.2% reduction that continues the overall trend of recent years of lower receipts from a diminishing congregation.
Other unrestricted general income, including that generated from fundraising activities, amounted to £132,599 (2016: £128,506). This included a change in the arrangements for handling income from the hire of facilities in the Priory Centre and Tithe Barn by external users which had previously been accrued to the independent Priory House Company. For 2017 this additional income amounted to £23,860.
The level of unrestricted expenditure, other than for exceptional items, amounted to £199,837 (2017: 204,912) while the Winston Appeal restricted funds covered the expenditure incurred moving the Jesse effigy and on other items for the Lewis Chapel. This totalled £39,088 (2017: £76,588).
During 2017 the Charity received £99,000, out of the total £110,000 awarded, from the Listed Places of Worship Roof Repair Scheme towards the Lewis Chapel Roof Repair Scheme and £6,910 from the Home Office for security Improvements on the St Mary’s site. In addition the Charity received a service charge of £3,000 from the Brecon Beacons National Park Authority associated with the latter’s use of part of the Tithe Barn as the town’s Tourist Information Office. The Charity received no other grants or income for services delivered, from central or local government during the year. However, grants were received from Church-based groups towards the costs of the repairs to the roof of the Lewis Chapel, and towards the Holywell Community including contributions to the costs of the sub-prior.
The Parish Share payable to the Diocese during the year was £60,385 (2016: £66,895) but shortfalls in previous years means that £23,339 (2016: £35,320) remained outstanding at the end of the year.
Exceptional items during the year included the repairs to the Lewis Chapel Roof (£127,309, with invoices outstanding at year end), the security upgrades at St Mary’s (£8,637) and repairs to the external fabric at Christchurch (£7,840).
The net assets of the Charity at 31 December 2017 amounted to £340,002 (31/12/2016: £374,669) including freehold properties valued at £362,641 (unchanged). The reduction in assets reflected the net expenditure on the Lewis Chapel by the Winston Memorial Fund using money raised in previous years. The principal liabilities remain the shortfall on the Parish Share and the loan on the Holywell Community House (£59,004), which is due for repayment in September 2023.
A minimum level of reserves also needs to be retained to ensure the PCC can meet its legal commitments should the Charity be unable to continue due to a lack of a sustainable income stream. The Officers of the PCC have established a policy whereby the unrestricted funds not designated for specific use by the PCC or invested in tangible fixed assets, ie the free reserves held by the Charity, should ideally be between three and six months of the resources expended in general funds.
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wordpress | It’s sometimes interesting to see the diversity of topics that scholars write about. Amy Chua writes about how empires are made more powerful by tolerance, and also about her superior parenting style. This article discusses her book, written with her husband who is also a professor, on the three traits that lead to high attainment by immigrant groups in the US.
How do you think people might react to their thesis?
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wordpress | Posted on February 13, 2013 by Sofie L.
Several years ago, while I was still working at Lund University, one of my colleagues Dr Johan Lindgren came to me one day with a microscope slide and asked me if I could help him check if there was anything in it. The only things we found were very small (ca 10-15 μm) spiny oval things, definitely not something palynological but most likely something organic of some sort.
Johan Lindgren showed me a paper by Mary Schweizer et al. (2007) which depicted small spiny cells from soft-tissue preserved inside bones from three different dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops horridus and Brachylophosaurus canadensis.
These cells were believed to be osteocytes, small star-shaped cells that reside inside bones and which can live as long as the organism itself and are capable of bone deposition and resorption.
Fig. 1. from the Lindgren et al. (2011) paper showing the spiny osteocytes in photos A-F.
Research performed on soft-tissue preserved in fossil bones are bringing us closer to the plot of Stephen Spielberg’s 1993 motion picture “Jurassic Park”, after a novel by Michael Crichton. Mary Schweitzer and her colleagues have just published a new paper in the journal Bone: Schweitzer et al. (2013): Molecular analyses of dinosaur osteocytes support the presence of endogenous molecules, in which their data are the first to support preservation of multiple proteins and to present multiple lines of evidence for material consistent with DNA in dinosaurs.
However, there is still a long way to go before anyone can genetically modify frog-DNA and recreate Tyrannosaurus rex or any other dinosaurs like they did in “Jurassic Park”.
Large herbivorous dinosaurs sustained Mesozoic greenhouse climate through flatulence?
Posted on May 7, 2012 by Sofie L.
In our society today we are very much aware of the effects of greenhouse gases on the climate. Global warming due to anthropogenic pollution has been discussed vigorously over the last decade. We spend enormous amounts of money on research and development of Carbon Capture and Storage, i.e. the possibilities of storing excess carbondioxide underground.
Geologists discuss the causes and effects massive release of carbondioxide or the four times more potent greenhouse gas methane possibly had on the climate and on life on Earth during the end-Permian and end-Triassic mass extinction events.
In a quest to find out what is normal and not normal when it comes to carbondioxide levels in the atmosphere, and the circulation of carbon on Earth, researchers have found out that our domestic cows produce some 50-100 million tonnes methane per year by gases formed in their guts.
Now a team of researchers lead by David Wilkinson have calculated how much methane may have been produced by large herbivorous dinosaurs, the so called sauropods including e.g. Apatosaurus, and their best estimates suggest 520 million tonnes of methane per year. A truly staggering amount as this equals the total combined methane emissions per year from all sources on Earth, i.e. from all animals and all human activities.
Sauropods probably had big guts containing lots of methane producing microbes!
The mean global temperature during the Mesozoic is estimated to have been 10 degrees Celsius warmer than today. Interestingly the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods are in general considered to have been periods of high diversity and productivity, both at sea and on land, despite the high levels of carbondioxide in the atmosphere.
So how come we fear carbondioxide and methane emissions today?
The key issue is probably time. Our planet; its interacting animals and plants, minerals and rocks, needs time to adapt to environmental changes. Fast injection of huge amounts of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, whether from massive volcanism or from anthropogenic emissions, can shift climatic zones and cause major disruptions in ecosystems.
Perhaps the methane farts from the herbivorous dinosaur populations only sustained the greenhouse climate that was initiated at the end-Triassic?
Perhaps they didn’t really make things worse…just kept things normal?
Posted on November 17, 2011 by Sofie L.
Red beds are common in Upper Triassic terrestrial sedimentary successions worldwide. Having formed in semi-arid to arid environments, these rocks are generally sparse in fossils. This is perhaps mainly because the preservation potential for fossils in such environments is poor, and not necessarily because there were no plants and animals at the time of deposition.
On the Colorado Plateau in southwestern U.S.A. the Upper Triassic red bed succession of the Chinle Formation, deposited by river systems and small lakes under an arid climatic regime, contains well preserved fossil plants and vertebrate remains; archeosaurs, dinosaurs as well as the precursors of dinosaurs, the dinosauromorphs (see e.g. Irmis et al., 2007; Nesbitt et al., 2009). However, relative datings of these fossil floras and faunas have been hampered by the fact that they occur within an otherwise relatively fossil-poor terrestrial succession. They have traditionally been assigned a Carnian to early Norian age, based on fossil spores and pollen (Litwin et al., 1991).
But now Randall Irmis and his colleagues (read the abstract here) present two new radioisotopic datings on detrital zircons that indicates that the Chinle Formation is younger than previously thought, namely between ~218 and ~212 million years old (maximum ages), i.e. mostly or wholly Norian in age.
This means that the early dinosaurs of North America are younger than their famous South American counterparts from the Ischigualasto Formation in northwestern Argentina. | 2019-04-21T22:40:29Z | https://triassica.wordpress.com/tag/dinosaurs/ | Porn | Science | 0.491608 |
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wordpress | This long lost, silent picture has a family connection. Starring Lon Chaney (The Man of a Thousand Faces), it was filmed on the Chicago & North Western Railroad near Green Bay, Wisconsin. My namesake Great-Grandfather, Lindsay “Len” Pruner was a C&NW trainmaster and engineer who worked with Lon Chaney as a technical advisor.
Unfortunately, Thunder 1929 is one of Lon Chaney’s “lost” movies with only a few minutes of footage surviving. Even worse, Lon Chaney passed away shortly thereafter due to “too much smoking”. It was his last silent film.
“Thunder on the C&NW” was an article in the Summer 1983 issue of North Western Lines magazine written by my father, Philip B. Korst about the making of this movie. It is available for purchase on CD from the C&NW Historical Society.
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Nice article, I didn’t know many of the details, especially the information about your great-grandfather. I’ll consider ordering the article.
It’s remarkable that the only two know surviving fragments of the film both came to light in the late 1990s, from independent sources. Perhaps someday a print will surface, but it becomes less likely with each passing year. | 2019-04-23T14:23:17Z | https://obscuretrainmovies.wordpress.com/2014/08/31/thunder-1929/ | Porn | News | 0.460452 |
typepad | It's also odd to see this paper-in-pixels as a Teamsters operation. Yes, I know that what the Teamsters are doing here is a Good Thing. But my hope for the SB Newsroom was to see a new online paper that would carry forward as its own operation, with its own publishing as well as editorial ambitions. What we have here is a new breed that isn't built to reproduce. Meaning nobody else can use it. It's unique to Santa Barbara's bizarre dispute between the owner of a paper and pretty much everyone else — especially its growing diaspora of cast-off employees.
I'm also not sure that the News-Press is a "public trust." It's a private business, and always has been. Even if the Teamsters succeed in getting these reporters reinstated at the News-Press, I doubt the result will be a better newspaper than they could create fresh on their own. Especially with Wendy McCaw continuing to own the paper.
Seems to me it would make more sense for the reporters to start their own newspaper. Meanwhile, the odd conflations of public trust, private business, unions running exile newsroom websites, etc., are more eddies in the storm of confusion caused by the Internet moving like a tornado through the traditional business of newspapers. The biggest risk is pretending that the old business will remain unchanged. | 2019-04-26T11:46:54Z | https://riskman.typepad.com/perilocity/2007/04/newsroom_flees_.html | Porn | Business | 0.864275 |
wordpress | Are they not the greatest of ingredients?! I use them all the time, unwaxed and organic preferably, and they are an invaluable help when planning a detox or just when I need a pick-me-up.
Lemon juice and zest are great anti-ageing weapons because they protect the cells against oxidation and premature ageing.
The oil stored in the zest is a fantastic mood uplifter and booster of your immune system. It has very efficient anti-bacterial and anti-viral properties so I use it in cooking and in the bathroom at the first onset of a cold.
I put a few drops of lemon oil and grapefruit oil in a morning bath as an instant tonic or I love soaking a cloth, putting a few drops of lemon oil on it and letting it dry on a radiator in the living room or bedroom. The smell pervades the rooms throughout the house and it is like walking into a lemon grove!..
The essential oil or the juice can be used directly on the skin (but away from the sun!) and it works well to eliminate body odours or activate blood circulation in areas prone to water retention or dimples!
But its best use in the bathroom is as an adjuvant to rinsing water for shiny, healthy hair.
In the kitchen, half a lemon sprinkled with baking soda is a great tool to scrub wooden blocks or boards. It helps deodorise but also kills off most bacteria in the wood.
During my detox, I drink a hot lemon juice in the morning: Just squeeze half a lemon into hot water and sweeten with a drop of Agave syrup if you find it too sharp. Add to it a pinch of cinnamon or cayenne pepper. This helps to start the day with a clear head and the spices boost the metabolism very efficiently so I burn calories and show TLC to my intestine at the same time. I try to leave half an hour before having breakfast- just time to get dressed for the day ahead!
I’d love to hear of other recipes and uses for lemon, as I am quite sure this golden fruit is worth its weight in gold… To continue!
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tripod | These are just some of my pictures from my European vacation this summer.
This is my friends and me in Florence outside of a dance club on the 4th of July.
This is my friend Amber and me in Italy at St. Francis Basillica. | 2019-04-21T08:12:42Z | http://shiver222.tripod.com/europage.htm | Porn | Recreation | 0.862112 |
wordpress | Like it was meant for me to be.
What a loser I had been.
Oh rain, please set me free.
Another poem explaining the interesting life of my neighbour, who happens to be a close friend.
This is because one of my other neighbors, Ms.A was worrying about her father today; being old, he had told her that he’d collapse any day; her lament had fuelled today’s poetry.
And tell me you’re always there.
This post is written for Mr.K of my neighbouring apartment – after his daughter narrated me a scene from their everyday story. She tells me everything, and I know the K family pretty well.
எனக்கென்று முளைத்த அரியதோர் நட்பாக இருப்பாயா?
என் வேதனைகளை தான் புரிந்து கொள்வாயா?
என் மனதில் உள்ளவற்றை எனது கண்களினால் தெரிந்து கொள்வாயா?
கண்டுகொள்ளாமல் சென்றுவிடுவாயா.. என்னை உண்மையிலே கொன்று விடுவாயா..
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wordpress | In this tutorial you will learn the following commands.
3- Creating niche in the ceiling by using cutout tool..
4- Inserting furniture, importing 3ds files and m3d files. Creating objects.
5- Copying along reference lines.
6- Using copy and arrange tool.
7- Using colors, textures and importing images.
8- Modifying textures by move, scale and rotate option.
9- Applying Reflection and Reflective coating to materials.
10- Using RGBW wallwashers (colored light e.g. LED) and tiltable spotlight.
12- Save Camera View or POV (Point of View).
13- Managing light scenes and control groups.
15- Preparing the print out report.
You put the room type if you want to get the recommended lighting levels as per EN12464 in Assessment zone and application.
You can hide or Show the descriptive texts by cliking ? Icon on the property window.
Tip: if the line is outside the room you can rotate along z axis 180 different than your current angle.
Draw new ceiling following points 1,2 (points at the offset reference line) then 3,4 and last right click the mouse and select close polygon.
From reference lines draw polygonal reference line in the point shown in the side image.Then right click to close polygon.
You can delete the help reference grid, and now you can see polygonal reference line clearly.
Go to plan view and select the cutout you made, if you can’t select it then go to the Cutout tool and select the cutout.
Move the corner points of the cutout to the corner points of the outer reference lines by mouse.
Go to plan view and select the cutout you made, if you can’t select it then go to the Cutout tool and select the cutout.Move the corner points of the cutout to the corner points of the outer reference lines by mouse.
Select a black color and drag it while pushing the shift key of keyboard and apply the color to the inner surface of the niche.
Go to plan view and make another ceiling in the corner of the inner reference lines.
Go to color and pick the color that you used by selecting the pick material optionsThen apply it to the four sides’ surface of the new ceiling.
Of course you could do the above by many different ways like objects and subtraction, but this way is very useful when you place lighting as DIALux detects ceiling and place the ceiling luminaires right at the ceiling!
size L = 0.020, W= 0.800, H= 0.4 somewhere in the room, it doesn’t matter where as you are going to use it to create copies of it and delete it later, but make it near the left wall.
Select the last cube and go to copy and arrange tool then select copy along line.If you are not selecting an object you will not see this option as active.
Move the green arrow down to center of the cubeTip if you select the triangle then you can move in x,y plane, but if you select the green arrow you will move the object only in y axis.The red arrow will move only in x axis.For this tutorial move only the green arrow.
Make sure you are in the Copy and Arrange Tool, Select all the objects near the wall, and select center z to make the smaller objects and the center height of the bigger object.
Finally select subtract, and click on subtract button after you make select the bigger object if not selected.You can swap between objects under the line SUBTRACT FORM WHICH OBJECT?
Now you should be having a view like this one.
In similar way to Step-3 ,draw 2 reference lines with an offset of 0.35 m form the table.the reference line will be the the edge of the table and the PARALLELS SPACED APART=0.35 outside the table.use rotation if the offset line is inside the table.Draw two lines, one for each sidefor each one like the next image, to place you can use this for imported chair in these locations.
This file has 208 KB which should be ok for most computers but if your computer specification is low then try to use lighter file, or use DIALux standard furniture.
Select the object in the right window by mouse.
Now in the search box of the catalog white organic, select the file and then apply, or double click on the object.
Repeat the line arrangement for chair for the lower reference line then Put the quantity 2 and distance as 2 for the second line.
If you select one of the chairs you select the arrangement where you can modify that arrangement, if you click another time on the same chair you activate selection of only that chair, then you can modify the object properties.
To replace all chair at one command select all chairs and then click on Replace selected objects, and then select the new object. Of course you have to import the new 3ds file first.
Go to http://archive3d.net to download flowers, this is a good website that has a lot of 3ds files, some of them could be used in DIALux which has small size and not too surfaces.
The current version of DIALux evo 1 doesn’t yet have an automatic scaling tool so you can use DIALux 4 to import and scale 3ds file and then save the file in m3d format.Open DIALux 4 and create a room of any size then go to file, import and edit 3d models.
Select the downloaded 3ds flower file (Flower N171208) and then click next and select millimeters.Click next twice and finish.
select the object and right click the mouse and select save objectSave object to a convenient location, let’s make it desktop and name it as Flower T4.
In a similar way to step-26 go to DIALux evo Furniture and Objects tool and open DIALux furniture catalog and import the files as you did in importing Vitra chair.
Go to 3d view and place the flower somewhere on the table, you can do this by dragging the flower by mouse to the table or by using place individual object and then selecting the location.
Keep the flowers selected and go to copy and arrange tool, click shift and select the table so you have both objects selected.Click on center x, center y to make the flower vase center on table.
Go back to material and now select Materials tab where you can find your selected materials form the catalog, If you wish to make them favorites then right click the mouse and select favorite.
Make sure you are still in the materials tool and select the top surface of the table and rotate the surface by 90°.You can move scale and rotate the material as you wish.
let’s import an image for the paining, this is the selected one for this tutorials.
Select the material on the painting and scale it to cover the whole painting.The points marked in red to scale.The point marked in green to rotate.The point marked in blue to move.
Adjust saturation to left so you can get a white color.
Select Material type to be painted.
Put reflection factor as 80%.
Apply this color to the ceiling 3 parts, walls, column, sphere and the 6 parts of low cabinet under the paining.
Ceiling part 1 Ceiling part 2 Ceiling part 3 Sphere + column The 6 parts of low cabinet under the paining.
Reflective coating=90 (this is to make the object glossy and have a polish look like a metal similart to the prieview sphere).
Apply the above color to the legs of chair and table to give them polish metal look during rendering.
Zoom to flower vase and apply a white color to the flowers, and a dark green to the grey color.
After downloading all the files go to file -> import -> luminaire file and import all the 5 ULD data files by selecting the files and clicking open.
Draw line form point one to point 2 in the ceiling. the line of light should be close to the offset reference line. You can move this line after you draw it by move action.
Makesure the light distribution is going to the left wall by activating show light Distribution form the display option in the upper rightUse rotate option if the light distribution not to the wall.
Go back to light and select, type 37824 in search box and select this light.Draw Rectangular arrangement inside track location using inner reference lines following points 1,2 and 3 as illustrated below.
Go to Copy and Arrange tool in LIGHT MODE, and then select the last luminaire and the painting and CENTER Y.
Active 3d view ,Go to Edit Joints tool and select the HEAD OF Cantax Spotlight facing the painingThe head should appear in red, don’t select the luminaire arm or luminaire top, and select only the head. Then click on set illumination point in the Edit joints Actions, then click the mouse cursor to middle of the painting as you could see form the green ring in the third image below so you can easily aim the spot light to the painting.
Aim the other two spot light one for flower and the other for sphere as shown.
Go to Views Tool and move the project in 3d view to appropriate view and click on Save New View in actions of views to be able to go back any time to the same view.Any time you can restore the view by clicking on show view icon.Try to save similar view of the project to the one shown under.
DIALux evo create by default each arrangement as control group, but you can change this anyway.Select the first control Group; it will be the RGBW wallwasherIf you canot see the control group click on the arrow heighted in Green box.The orange box shows you how many you have of this luminaire.You can click inside the red box and change the nameYou have four values as this luminaire has four color of RGBW (Red, Green, blue and warm white). You can dim any value from 100% to 0% before or after calculation.
Keep this control group as it is and keep the group of 6 downlight as it is as well, but delete all other groups by clicking on the x on top right corner of control group window.
Go to Light scenes Actions and select Create new luminaire group and select the new luminaire group which should have 0 luminaire.Select all track spotlights then click on + icon on control group window to add those light to this control group.If you want to remove any of them you can select any spotlight and click on – icon which will be activated only if you select an added luminaire to the group.
Activate Wall washer Cyan, 50% Downlight scene by double clicking on the scene, if you wish activate Generate outputs for this light scene tosee values and results in the output.
Now you have 2 light scene, Remember you can modify these values after calculation, however if you would like to generate different results in the output then you have to create the scene you want.
Note: If you want to speed up the calculation time, then keep only one scene as we have furniture with many surfaces.
You can show the different light scene by clicking on show once calculation finishes or form the top right corner select the required scene form the drop down menu and click on right icon to show it.
If the color appearance of the light looks unnatural, go to display options at the right upper corner and select white balance as manual.The white balance The warmer the color you select (values towards 2000) the cooler the appearance of the room you get and vice versa.Many people get confused thinking that 2000 should make the room very warm like the lamp values, that is not true 2000 means you are seeing the room too warm and software will take that factor to make it cooler.For this tutorial select a value of 4000K.
-You can create outputs for this calculation surface.
Go to documentation modeSelect action gives you possibilities selecting predefined output e.g. Single room report.
There are many setting for each page according to the information needed for print out. Try it out and enjoy!
Very nice Ezzat! Good job!
Hi, what are differences between calculating in DIALux and DIALux evo?
Thank you very much Ezzat!
excuse me,but why I can’t do the step8,the cutout have no depth even I write 0.035 0r -0.035 it doesn’t work,also I can’t see it in the plan view!Plz help!Thank you!
Thanks so much for the excellent turorial !
Dear all the Tutorial Is Excellent, but the luminaries you have used are not free, They are premium now.
kindly update the luminaries so we ca understand it very well.
Great tutorial. With a little polishing it could/should be an official tutorial.
I have taken the liberty to upload the uld files for the luminaires used in this project. They are still freely available from the ERCO website, but they are hard to find.
Thank you, the presentation is very informative.
Please help me. How can i set false colour rendering colour values by using Dialux 4.12.
Hello Ezzat! You are great, nobody does what you do, educating and giving your knowledge for free. I`m having problem as Ameen Aman – cant select luminarie and picture to centre it (different categories? how did you do it? :)). Thank you very much!
Amazing tutorial. Really appreciate your efforts in making this.
Thanks very much! very detailed tutorial, got everything at a go. great job.
great video..where is the photo metric analysis?
thanks for the gift of knowledge sir.
I have a question: Is there a way to color an entire object (all segments) with out having to individually select and color each segment? This is causing me a little grief as it takes too long to drag and drop every single color onto an object.
I am using DIALux evo 6.2.
Thank you sir, jazakallahu khairan. This article is really useful, I have tried it and it works well. Alhamdulillah.
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wordpress | From the beginning, Princeton University Press sought to market the Smyth report to employees of the Manhattan Project at Hanford, Oak Ridge, and Los Alamos. When their usual distributors proved reluctant (one refused even to phone a Tennessee outlet, saying, “I don’t want to waste your money”) (Smith 197), the Press teamed up with the employee welfare organization at Oak Ridge to vend the book directly. “We sold about 8,000 copies in Oak Ridge and a couple thousand each in Los Alamos and Richland [i.e. Hanford] through somewhat similar arrangements,” gloated Smith (198).
Evidence of that success abounds in the copies of Atomic Energy for Military Purposes recently presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman as part of the Zinman Atomic Energy Collection, several of which have autographs or marks of ownership from participants in the Manhattan Project. One copy of the 1945 edition is autographed by Smyth himself and another by Edward Teller and Hans Bethe. A third is signed by sixteen people involved in the development of the gaseous diffusion method of producing enriched uranium at Columbia University and Oak Ridge, including Eugene T. Booth, Clarke Williams, and George Moseley Murphy.
The Smyth report also seems to have been considered an apt gift for the scientists and engineers who worked on the Manhattan Project. The copy autographed by Teller and Bethe has pasted in beneath their signatures a folded piece of paper with the inscription, “With all good wishes, Ernest O Lawrence.” Another copy, dated 4 October 1945, is inscribed from the Kellex Corporation (the Manhattan Project division of the M.W. Kellogg Company) to H. A. (Harry Alonzo) Winne, an electrical engineer and General Electric executive who consulted at Oak Ridge. This book is signed by a number of bigwigs, including General Groves, his deputies Thomas F. Farrell and Kenneth D. Nichols, Kellex heads P. C. Keith and Albert L. Baker, and the president of Taylor Instrument Company, Lewis B. Smith, as well as by Lieutenant Colonel James C. Stowers, physicists Henry A. Boorse and John R. Dunning and the otherwise unidentified Victoria R. Musial (possibly an administrative assistant; a woman of that name worked as a stenographer in New York City in 1933), among others.
A sixth copy was presented, probably in 1946, to electrical engineer Robert R. (Robert Raymond) Peatfield (1906-1988) and signed by seventy-one of his fellow employees of the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. Peatfield’s name appears nowhere in the volume, but one signer, Frances Ketler, added “XXXOOO To Mrs. Peatfield” (i.e. Alice Gertrude Peatfield, née Forshee; 1909-2009) after her signature.
No famous names here, but plenty that figure in Y-12’s in-house newsletter, the Y-12 Bulletin — as, for instance, George B. Tucker, the seventh name in the front pastedown’s left-hand column, whose family’s bowling prowess was lauded on 24 May 1949, or Edith Ann Manson (1922-1998) and Charles S. Harrill (1909-2002), names eight and ten in the left-hand column on the front endleaf, whose marriage was reported on 15 July 1947. Another interoffice romance can be discerned in the front endleaf’s right-hand column, between Patsy Elmore (1921-2000), eighth from the top, and Paul C. Hauber (1918-1993), second from the bottom, who were married on 14 September 1946, providing a terminus ante quem for these undated autographs.
In such volumes we gain a glimpse not only of the science of nuclear technology, but also of its culture.
*Which was actually its subtitle. The main title, Atomic Bombs, was supposed to be stamped separately on the title page after printing, but for some reason none but the copyright-deposit copies were so treated (Smyth, “Smyth Report” 185).
Smith, Datus C. (Spring 1976). “The Publishing History of the ‘Smyth Report’.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle 37.3 (Spring 1976): 191–203.
Smyth, Henry DeWolf. Atomic Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945.
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salon | As of Wednesday afternoon, a Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict New York Police Department Officer Daniel Pantaleo, who performed a fatal chokehold on Eric Garner while attempting to arrest him. The decision is surprising, especially after the New York medical examiner ruled the death a homicide.
The case gained widespread notoriety after a video of the incident depicting Garner yelling "I can't breathe!" circulated on the Internet.
The case exposed lapses in police tactics -- chokeholds are banned by the Police Department's own guidelines -- and raised questions about the aggressive policing of minor offenses in a time of historically low crime. The officers, part of a plainclothes unit, suspected Mr. Garner of selling loose cigarettes on the street near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, a complaint among local business owners.
Officer Pantaleo's gun and badge have been taken from him, although it is unclear whether or not he will return to the NYPD.
The grand jury's decision comes just over a week after a similar grand jury in St. Louis, Mo. decided not to indict Darren Wilson for the death of unarmed teenager Michael Brown. | 2019-04-22T06:43:26Z | https://www.salon.com/2014/12/03/ny_cops_will_not_be_indicted_for_eric_garner_chokehold_death/ | Porn | News | 0.934403 |
wordpress | Are you ready for some krafty fun?
We can’t wait for you to play along and share your amazing krafty kreations!
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Each and every Saturday we post a brand new challenge for the week and you are welcome to enter as many times as you like! These must be new creations and you are welcome to use any stamp, however using a Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamp will earn you double entries! Each submission will enter you into the monthly draw of a $40 gift voucher to the krafty shop!
We’ve also got a brand new sketch to inspire you for the month of March! You don’t have to use it but it’s there for you to use if you need a little kickstart….feel free to use it any time!
Also don’t miss this weekend’s FRUGAL FRIDAY SPECIALS!
We’ve got a selection of stamp sets on SALE 40% OFF this weekend only and while supplies last!
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wordpress | I’ve read some of Rebecca Bryn’s book and enjoyed them, so was delighted when she agreed to visit my blog to tell us about her latest book.
The Dandelion Clock is my latest release and is set during the Great War, from 1914 – 1919, in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine, and England. It was inspired by something my grandfather confided in me just before he died, and I realised, much later, that there was a heartrending story there. The research was a real eye-opener, and the action is fact-based. I had no idea that men and mules froze to death in Gallipoli, drowned in trenches susceptible to flash floods, or died from dysentery, malaria, heat stroke, and dehydration in the Sinai Desert and the Jordan Valley on top of being shelled, shot at, and bombed.
When Bill returns to England after the armistice in 1918, both he and Florrie have been changed by their personal journeys. Can their love survive five years apart and the tragedies they’ve endured? Will Bill keep his promises to Florrie and Lady Alice?
A heartbreaking story of lovers torn apart by the Great War. An insight into the military history of the 1914 1918 war in Egypt as fought by the Royal Buckinghamshire Hussars and the Queen’s Own Worcestershire Yeomanry – some of the ‘PALS brigades’. Considered ‘not real soldiers’ by the regular army, the Royal Bucks and the Worcester Yeomanry fought with great courage and suffered huge losses. In fact, the Worcesters sustained more losses than any brigade in any war, and the PALS earnt the respect of all who fought. Although Military Fiction 1914 1918, it is a story inspired by real people and based on real events that doesn’t forget the role of women in the Great War or their need for a WW1 romance.
8,000,000 horses, mules, and donkeys died during the Great War, many from gunshot and gas, but many from exhaustion, thirst, and disease. https://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2011/12/16/true-story-britain-war-horses/ Their contribution to the war effort can’t be overestimated.
Royalties also to http://www.thebrooke.org/get-involved/every-horse-remembered to honour the millions of horses, mules, and donkeys who didn’t come home after the Great War.
The Dandelion Clock is available for pre-order at the special price of 99p/99c at http://mybook.to/DandelionClock until September 4th when it be £1.99/$2.99 so get it now.
‘It’s only a century since the first world war came to an end. It’s easy to forget that the conduct of warfare was then still heavily dependent upon horses. Cavalry regiments still formed the backbone of the British army.
Bryn’s grandfather served in such a regiment and it is that fact that inspired her to write this epic tale. But she does not limit herself to the rigours faced by serving men. She takes a close look at the lives of those left behind in England. The older generation of men whose labours kept ‘the home fires burning’ and the women of all ages who shouldered the burden of clothing and feeding everyone whilst worrying about the fate of their young male relatives in far flung corners of the world.
Another factor that sets this book apart from many others set in World War I is the way it concentrates on an often forgotten theatre of war. This is important because the events that Bryn relates reverberate a century later. After describing pre-war rural life, with shades of Downton Abbey, the story moves to the period of training that volunteer soldiers underwent. This enables Bryn to introduce us to a romantic triangle as her protagonist, Bill, and a young woman, Martha, with whose family he is billeted, develop a fondness for each other that leaves him agonising about his espousal to his sweetheart, Florrie, in his home town.
The action then moves to the ill-fated expedition to the Dardanelles and, thence, to Egypt and the Holy Land. Through all the minor victories and set-backs that characterised these campaigns we see not only the suffering of the men but that of the horses. Copper, a horse belonging to Lady Alice, the daughter of the ‘big house’, is an important character in this story. Her suffering, and that of the other horses, will break your heart. Bryn has stated that she wept frequently whilst writing such scenes. It is that emotional engagement with the suffering of all her characters – back home in England the relationship between Florrie and her father goes from bad to worse to terrible – that makes Bryn’s writing such a roller coaster ride for the reader.
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livejournal | Anyone else not getting mail notifications? Or is it just gmail?
Nah, LJ's being screwy again.
Difficult for me to tell as my email has also died.
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wordpress | Oh wow! all those wild flowers in the hedgerow! are you keeping a list of them? I camped a lot as a child as you may have done and wild flowers were always abundant . It is so sad that they are often a rarity but sometimes , like in your country hedge, they have survived the years. I love them too!
Yes, and I love the way they change as the season moves from Spring to early to late Summer. Also the difference in species between the banks on each side of the lane. | 2019-04-24T18:50:11Z | https://gribinisaf.wordpress.com/2015/06/23/down-along-the-hedgerow/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.88267 |
uchicago | Reuben Thomas Durrett (1824-1913), lawyer, manuscript and book collector, and Kentucky historian. The Reuben T. Durrett Personal Papers contain a small amount of correspondence, manuscripts, notes, newspaper clippings, transcripts and memorabilia. The collection includes biographical and genealogical information on numerous historical figures from Kentucky, lists of prominent Kentuckians, copies of historical letters, documents concerning Kentucky, and documents relating to the Filson Club, a historical society founded by Durrett. Papers document Durrett's interest in acquiring a variety of materials on the history of Kentucky and the Ohio River Valley.
When quoting material from this collection, the preferred citation is: Durrett, Reuben T. Personal Papers, [Box #, Folder #], Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
The existence of the Durrett library first came to the attention of the University of Chicago through William E. Dodd, a professor of American history at the University who had consulted the library as a student. Like other faculty members of the Division of the Social Sciences early in the century, Dodd was concerned about the University's lack of extensive research materials for history and related subjects, and since he was aware of Durrett's advanced age, he persuaded A. C. McLaughlin, also of the history department, to accompany him to Louisville in June, 1910, to see the collection and to make discreet inquiries about plans for its disposition. The two found Durrett himself uncertain about his plans, but learned that the Durrett family opposed making a donation of the collection, and that they were in communication with Princeton University and the University of Illinois about selling the library.
Dodd himself was very enthusiastic about the research potential which Durrett's library represented, and won the support of many of his colleagues on the social science faculties in his efforts to persuade President Judson to consider the purchase by the University of the entire library, numbering some 30,000 volumes. Convinced that the collection would be a valuable addition to the University's holdings, but wary of the expense involved, Judson agreed cautiously to investigate the idea. Although Dodd and his colleagues were anxious to conclude the agreement quickly, fearing competition from other would-be purchasers or the dispersal of the collection upon Durrett's apparently imminent death, the task of deciding upon a fair offer was made difficult by the fact that the collection had never been adequately catalogued.
Durrett's own suggestion made in December, 1912 of $45,000 seemed high, so in February 1913, the University engaged Walter Lichtenstein, a Northwestern University librarian who had previously acted as purchasing agent for the University of Chicago libraries, to assess the value of the Durrett collection. Lichtenstein's report was submitted to President Judson on February 21, 1913, following a trip to Louisville to sample the collection.
The assessment, made on terms of commercial market value rather than scholarly significance, divided Durrett's library into four parts. Some 20,000 bound volumes (including 500 volumes of Kentuckiana) he estimated at $7,200. Two hundred fifty file folders of pamphlet material had no apparent commercial value. Numerous manuscripts and newspapers were difficult to assess but Lichtenstein thought they could be fairly purchased for $15,000. A collection of maps was estimated to have a value around $50. Lichtenstein's estimate, therefore, totaled $22,000-$22,500, considerably less than Durrett's own. When the University authorized Lichtenstein to make this offer to the Durrett family, however, they accepted it, apparently favoring Chicago as the repository of their collection. The purchase sum, which was too high to be taken from the University's ordinary budget, was raised among outside donors, and under Lichtenstein's supervision, the library was dismantled and shipped to Chicago by early May. It filled 287 large packing crates. Its arrival provoked considerable comment in the Louisville and Chicago press, and almost immediately the University began to receive research inquiries from scholars and requests from several libraries for copies of some of the Durrett material to add to their own collections.
In his report Lichtenstein had warned President Judson that considerable effort and expense would be required to process the collection once it was at the University. His warning proved to be justified. Aside from the massive undertaking of unpacking, sorting, and cataloguing the collection, much of the material was found to be in poor condition, requiring cleaning, repair, and binding or rebinding. To facilitate the efficient processing of the Durrett acquisition, the entire operation was assigned to Edward A. Henry of the library staff, who, with the help of his assistants, was to devote most of his attention to the Durrett project for some seven years. It was decided that duplicates should be disposed of, that a number of Filson Club possessions in Durrett's library should be returned to the Club, and that most of the non-manuscript material in the collection would be distributed according to subject matter among the University's various departmental libraries. On several occasions between 1913 and 1937, items of an official character were returned to Kentucky upon request, including records of Jefferson County, journals of Kentucky constitutional conventions, and certain manuscripts and photographs of the Filson Club identified by the club's president, R. C. Ballard Thurston. Most of Henry's time seems to have been devoted to preparing the material for this dispersal. His assignment was expanded in 1914 when the University purchased a collection totaling 436 volumes of Kentucky newspapers and miscellaneous books from Mrs. Joel R. Lyle, sister of Robert C. Boggs of Lexington, Kentucky. It was deemed appropriate to merge the Boggs-Lyle acquisition with the Durrett, and the two were processed together.
By the end of the 1915-16 academic year, about 9,000 of the Durrett and Boggs-Lyle volumes had been processed and distributed to the departmental libraries. It was then that Henry and his staff turned some of their attention to the manuscripts--that is, to the material comprising the Durrett Collection as described in this guide. At that time the Durrett manuscripts were apparently divided into four large groups--the Joel Tanner Hart Papers, the Joshua Lacy Wilson Papers, miscellaneous manuscripts, and miscellaneous separately bound items--either mounted in scrapbooks or bound together. A card catalog was compiled for at least the first three of these groups.
The Durrett Collection remained in this state until the mid-1950s. By then it had been incorporated within the holdings of the Department of Special Collections (1951), and it became clear that reorganization of the manuscripts was necessary. Paul Angle, a member of the staff of the Chicago Historical Society, who had surveyed the University of Chicago's manuscript collection as a consultant in 1944, had pointed out that the Durrett miscellaneous bound manuscripts in particular were of little use to scholars as they were then arranged and described. Moreover, the Special Collections staff had observed that the mountings and bindings done by Henry's staff were detrimental to the lives of the manuscripts, and that the existing catalog and descriptions provided inadequate access to the documents. The manuscripts, therefore, were removed from their bindings and divided into smaller and more coherent sub-collections.
In the 1970s, an effort was undertaken to edit the 1956 guide, to enhance the descriptions of the Durrett codices for greater detail and accuracy, and to differentiate between transcripts and original manuscript material bound together in the codices. Manuscript material also received conservation treatment. In 1983, another attempt was made to write a comprehensive guide to the entire collection. This guide remained in use until 2015. The current guide was completed in 2016.
Born in Henry County, Kentucky, on January 22, 1824, Reuben Thomas Durrett took pride in his descent from a family with an early history of intellectual achievement. The family was of French background (the surname was originally Duret) and counted among its members the authors of several mid-sixteenth and early seventeenth century French treatises on various scientific subjects. The Saint Bartholomew religious persecutions in France forced one branch of the family to emigrate to England. From there three brothers, John, Richard, and Bartholomew Durrett, migrated to Spotsylvania County, Virginia, early in the nineteenth century. Francis Durrett, the grandfather of Reuben, was born there and he returned after serving in the Illinois campaign of George Rogers Clark in 1778-79. Soon after the turn of the century, however, Francis moved to the western country, settling with his family in Henry County, Kentucky.
The son of William and Elizabeth Rawlings Durrett, Reuben Durrett received his primary education in the Henry County schools, and studied at Georgetown College, Georgetown, Kentucky, from 1844 until 1846. He received the degree of A.B. from Brown University in 1849 and returned to Kentucky where he enrolled as a law student at the University of Louisville. Upon receiving the LL.B. in 1850, he began a practice that was to continue for some thirty years. He served a term in 1853 as a member of the Louisville city council, and from 1857 until 1859, edited the Louisville Courier, of which he was a half-owner. In 1852 Durrett married Elizabeth H. Bates, daughter of Caleb and Elizabeth Humphreys Bates of Cincinnati. The couple had four children, of whom only one, William T. Durrett, lived to adulthood.
The success of his legal practice enabled Durrett to retire in 1880, and for the remainder of his life he devoted himself to his historical and literary interests. Earlier (about 1856) he had begun systematically to build an extensive library on a wide variety of subjects, and now he dedicated his resources particularly to enriching his collection of materials on Kentucky. Having initially “made it an object to secure every book about Kentucky or Kentuckians or that was written by a Kentuckian or even printed in Kentucky,” Durrett expanded his goals and seems in the end to have hoped to acquire every conceivable kind of source material on the history of Kentucky and much of the surrounding region. His Library grew to include not only printed but also manuscript works (including many brief genealogical or anecdotal sketches written in answer to Durrett's queries by descendants of prominent Kentuckians), transcripts of manuscript material on Kentucky located in private collections or in archives outside the state, and sundry books and manuscripts which, whatever their subject, Durrett deemed historically significant because they had once been owned by prominent Kentuckians.
Not content with simply amassing historical source materials, Durrett also made an effort to publish the results of his own researches into his collections. Moreover, in 1884 he persuaded nine other historically-minded Kentuckians to join him in founding the Filson Club, an organization dedicated to collecting primary source materials on Kentucky, encouraging historical study, and publishing literature on historical topics. The club was named after John Filson, who published in 1784 The Discovery, Settlement and Present State of Kentucke, a promotional tract that was later recognized as the first history of the state. From 1884 until his death, Durrett served as president of the society. Durrett also established the Louisville Public Library in 1871, and throughout his life made his own collection available to scholars interested in Kentucky affairs.
Durrett was an active member of his community in many other ways. He served on the Board of Park Commissioners and the Board of Councilmen. He was President of the Children's Free Hospital and the Episcopal Orphans' Home. At various points in his life he directed the Kentucky Title Company, the Kentucky Title Savings Bank, the First National Bank, the Kentucky Heating and Lighting Company, and the Louisville Lighting Company.
To assure that his library would remain accessible to scholars after his death, Durrett began in the last years of his life to make tentative plans to donate his collection to the city of Louisville. His family, however, thought it unwise to make an outright gift of such a valuable collection, and encouraged him to consider offers from would-be purchasers. A stroke in July, 1912, left Durrett unable to take a very active role in the disposition of his library, and after some consideration of other offers, the family concluded a purchase agreement with the University of Chicago early in 1913. Durrett died in Louisville on September 16, 1913.
Series I, Personal, contains a biographical sketch of Durrett, personal ephemera including travel brochures, funeral notices, and a list of newspapers in Durrett’s personal library.
Series II, Correspondence, contains the personal correspondence of Durrett. In his last years Durrett seems to have been engaged primarily in gathering biographical information on numerous Kentucky historical figures. This series contains all correspondence relating to these inquiries. Other research notes and materials can be found in Series IV. Materials are arranged chronologically, with separate folders for extended correspondence.
Series III, Clubs, contains materials pertaining to Durrett’s involvement with the Filson Club and the Sagamundi Club. This includes invitations, correspondence about club activities, articles of incorporation, a petition, and a small collection of meeting minutes. Materials are arranged in folders by type, then chronologically.
Series IV, Research, contains notes, lists, clippings, and correspondence connected to Durrett’s historical and biographical research. This series also contains historical and biographical accounts written by others. Materials are arranged by type or by individual being researched.
Series V, Writings, contains transcripts of lectures and essays by Reuben T. Durrett and other members of the Filson Club. The majority of these writings are biographical sketches or accounts of historical events. Materials are arranged alphabetically, by author.
Series VI, Oversize, contains one bound volume of notes for an unfinished biographical encyclopedia and extracts from notes on Colonel William Linn.
Researchers interested in topics represented in the Durrett Collection should check the author, title, or subject headings relevant to their interests in the Library catalog for potentially useful books and pamphlets from the Durrett Library, which were dispersed among the existing departmental libraries at the time of acquisition. Some of these items have since been transferred to the Rare Books collection and to the Reuben T. Durrett Collection of Broadsides, Pamphlets, and Leaflets, in the Special Collections Research Center.
The Durrett rare book collections include works of literature, travel and description, early histories of Kentucky such as Mann Butler's, biographies, legislative acts, and other legal documents.
Examples include Henry McMurtrie's Sketches of Louisville and Its Environs (1819); a collection of humorous verses, The Kentucky Miscellany, by Thomas Johnson, Jr. (1821), one of two known copies of the fourth edition, the first known to survive; and The Confession of Jereboam O. Beauchamp ... (1826).
Among the newspapers are 135 titles published in Kentucky, beginning in 1788 with the Kentucky Gazette, the first newspaper established in the state. Other important titles include the Mirror, the Palladium, the Guardian of Freedom, the Farmer's Library or Ohio Intelligencer, and numerous campaign newspapers such as The Patriot and The Spirit of '76 from 1826.
Included in the American Paper Currency Collection in the Special Collections Research Center is Durrett's collection of confederate currency, among which are many examples of notes issued by the Bank of Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Correspondence, reports, and clippings concerning the acquisition of the Reuben T. Durrett Collection for the University of Chicago are found in the University of Chicago Library Records Addenda.
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wordpress | OK, I freely admit that football season here in the states has slowed down my progress on 1 Timothy.
In one sense, this is good. It takes time to think through the project and come up with more questions to ask and more options to consider.
As an aside, I happened to listen to a video today and just had to post up the quote because it seems to apply to the 1 Timothy study quite well!
Very good questions to ask in an examination of a letter that appears to have been a power play to create just such an insider/outsider division.
In college I took a class on Christian Ethics. At the time I was deep in the “Reformed stage” of my journey, so I read a lot of the classic writers in that arena.
At the time, and for many years, this made good sense.
Just last night, I recalled this quote and realized that it didn’t seem to fit any longer.
Faithfulness is the essence of theology and unity is the essence of ethics.
In short, this is a paradigm shift from the traditional historic Protestant way of thinking.
The core of theology is understood to be both God’s faithfulness toward us and our faithfulness to Him and to one another through community. The core of ethics is unity, primarily with each other (the “One Anothers” of the New Testament) and obliquely with the world at large as well as with Him and in His reign over all.
While this is crystal clear to me, I know many Christians simply do not see the distortion (see Part 1). This just goes to show how deeply ingrained we are in our contemporary Western culture and how utterly out of touch we are with the culture of the early church.
In fact, the context in which this was taught was in a class on church planting. And this makes perfect sense, the form follows the function; the design supports how the church works. So, if we have professional ministers, the church structure, from the organizational chart all the way to the actual performance of ministry, in all practicality must serve the professional minster.
Yet, the “fail” is seen in the fact that upon reading the New Testament there simply were no professional ministers or hierarchy, and the design, the form, was quite different from what we have today.
This, then begs the question: If we notice this difference, how do we go about changing it? How do we get back to the original intent? How do we essentially allow for purposeful change that will benefit the church and in turn benefit society? How do we return to a functional ecclesiology?
The answer begins with embracing and encouraging a ministry supported by the New Testament in which all are ministers and all have received gifts and empowerment by the Holy Spirit to serve as Christ here and now every day of the week at any given place on the planet…and maybe beyond!
Take a look at these passages: Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12; Ephesians 4; 1 Peter 4.
The church is the body, all having a part to play. There are no professional ministers.
Now, there are indeed leaders, often called elders, but nowhere do we see these individuals taking over for the body. Their function is to encourage service – not to take it and to protect the body – not to control it.
Take a look at 1 Timothy 3 and Titus 1 for more on this. Again, no professional here either.
So, in short, both the church and her leaders need to be willing to reevaluate the current system to see how functional or dysfunctional it really has become. | 2019-04-25T22:31:50Z | https://earlychurchstudies.wordpress.com/category/quotes/ | Porn | Reference | 0.258908 |
wordpress | Mandaeans — Mandaeans exchanging a ritual handshake or kušṭa: Mandaeism is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic worldview. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram and especially John the Baptist.
The American led invasion of Iraq was meant to usher in democracy, liberty, freedom, and a revitalized Iraq. Sadly, from the outset other forces would be unleashed and this applies to radical Islam, terrorism, Sunni-Shia clashes, the persecution of Christians, and other negative forces. At the same time, an ancient religion was about to face a new wave of hatred and ethnic cleansing. This community, the Mandaeans, now faces virtual annihilation and now only a few thousand remain in modern day Iraq. So will this small community be forced to go into complete exile?
It is clearly apparent that all minorities, be they Assyrian Christians, Mandaeans, Shabaks, Yazidis, or others, face enormous persecution and the central government is either too weak or complacent. Also, the leaders of America must be blamed for entering Iraq and then leaving the minorities to face persecution, torture, death, and ethnic cleansing.
If we return back to the Mandaean community, then clearly their suffering is great and this community is in complete shock and bewilderment. The promise of a new Iraq means little because the “real reality” is abundantly clear and this applies to systematic persecution at the hands of radical Muslims and by mainstream society at large.
Of course America did not intend for this to happen, however, once systematic persecution began then the response by America and allied forces was a disgrace. After all, the Assyrian Christians, Mandaeans Shabaks, Yazidis, and others, have just been abandoned and Islamization is being allowed to take place.
Throughout history the Mandaeans and other minorities have faced many periods of brute force, forced conversion to Islam, massacres, pogroms, and widespread persecution. Of course, at other times they have been allowed to get on with their lives but at a price, namely paying jizya (tax) in order to be dhimmis or by being marginalized or alienated from mainstream society.
The Mandaeans, like the Shabaks and Yazidis, are not protected by dhimmitude because they are not deemed to be People of the Book. This applies to being outside of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism; the three recognized religions in Islam. Therefore, persecution is tolerated because the Mandaeans are deemed to be infidels.
In 2007 the BBC covered a story about the Mandaeans via the headline “Iraq’s Mandaeans face extinction” which was written by Angus Crawford. During the article Angus Crawford states that “The Mandaeans are pacifists, followers of Adam, Noah and John the Baptist.” He highlights that by 2007 more than 80% had already fled their homeland because of the fear of death and daily persecution.
Therefore, by 2007 you only had approximately 7,000 Mandaeans left in Iraq and of course the situation is not getting any better because a fresh pogrom is always around the corner. Given this tragic reality it is abundantly clear that this ancient faith, which is not a threat to anyone, now faces extinction because of the Islamic faith.
Of course you have many tragedies in Iraq but why have minorities been left to either die, pay jizya (tax) to Islamic radicals, face daily persecution, and other daily crimes? Why did America and allied forces, notably the British, do nothing to stop these barbaric crimes in Iraq? Did both nations, and others, believe that they did not count or is it that they just do not care?
Also, what is the government of Iraq doing to protect these minorities? Or is it simply that the central government is too weak? So ex-President Bush unleashed forces he could not contain and the current leader, President Obama, wants to leave Iraq. I wonder if either Bush or Obama care about the plight of Assyrian Christians, Mandaeans, Shabaks, Turkomans, Yazidis, and other minorities, and the role of women in the new Iraq?
Buddhism in Thailand – Around 90% of Thailand’s population is Buddhist of the Theravada school. However, Islam is dominant in southern Thailand and today you have a major civil war and Islamists want an independent state.
The image of Thailand is one of beautiful beaches and stunning Buddhist places of worship. However, in recent times this nation is blighted by political infighting, mass demonstrations, a delicate economy which fluctuates too much, and a devastating Islamic insurgency in southern Thailand.
It is the Islamic insurgency which I will concentrate on because the current crisis in southern Thailand does have wider consequences for Southeast Asia. After all, you have Christian-Muslim tensions in parts of Indonesia and the Philippines. Therefore, the situation is southern Thailand is very important both internally and externally.
The vast majority of people in Thailand belong to the Buddhist faith; however, southern Thailand is very different because most people are Muslim in the provinces of Yala, Narathiwat, and Pattani. Therefore, a major Sunni Muslim insurgency is currently igniting tensions in order to drive away the Buddhist minority and therefore lay the foundation of separation and independence from Thailand.
The radical Sunni Islamic insurgency desires to spread fear, hatred, and an area where Buddhism is eradicated just like what happened in Afghanistan or what is happening in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in modern day Bangladesh.
Therefore, the brutal Sunni Islamic insurgency is killing both moderate Muslims and Buddhists for different reasons. The reason for killing Buddhists is because certain elements within radical Sunni Islam do not believe in religious co-existence. Also, Buddhists are deemed to be infidels and within Islamic Sharia law they have no legal rights and conversion to Islam or death is sanctioned because they are not monotheists.
Given this, southern Thailand resembles modern day Afghanistan and Somalia because in both these nations you have radical Sunni Islamists who will not tolerate even one single Christian church or Buddhist temple. Therefore, the slaughter of Buddhists in southern Thailand is following a similar pattern of past and current history and the current anti-Buddhist onslaught in southern Thailand is reaching new heights.
At the same time moderate Muslims are being killed by radical Sunni Islamic fanatics. Given this, Muslim teachers, administration workers, or anyone deemed to be working with the government of Thailand is liable to face the threat of death. This fear is real and the methodology of killing is intended to spread fear to all who oppose the Islamization of southern Thailand.
The dream of radical Sunni Islamists in southern Thailand is to have a land with no Buddhists and to create an Islamic Sharia state. Therefore, the usual beheadings of innocents is deemed to be justified on the grounds that non-Muslims are infidels in accordance with the Koran and Hadiths.
It is clear that these sayings in both the Koran and Hadiths are still potent today because radical Islamists are spreading mayhem in many nations and this also applies to nations with small minorities. After all, Christians have been burnt alive in Pakistan despite being a small minority and several Christian leaders were beheaded recently in northern Nigeria in order to intimidate the sizeable Christian population in northern Nigeria.
Meanwhile Sunai Phasuk, a political analyst at Human Rights Watch, commented that “Buddhist monks have been hacked to death, clubbed to death, bombed and burned to death.” Therefore, it is clear that this Sunni Islamic insurgency is following a familiar path and this applies to the destruction of all non-Muslim elements within society or the complete dhimmitude of all non-Muslims by the rule of fear.
From the Sunni Islamic insurgents point of view they believe that the former Sultanate of Pattani is the structure of their society and that Thailand had no right to annex this land. Also, many Muslims claim that they face discrimination and that they have been marginalized by the central state. Therefore, many Muslims desire independence from Thailand.
However, the degree of violence aimed at both the Buddhist community and any Muslim deemed to be in favour of the government of Thailand is brutal. Zachary Abuza states “What is new about the current conflict is the level and degree of violence, the Islamist agenda of the insurgents, and their unprecedented degree of cooperation and coordination.
He continues by saying that “The level of violence in Thailand’s south has never been higher” and this can be seen clearly by the beheadings of Buddhists and hacking to death of Buddhist priests. Zachary Abuza also states this, for he says that “Nor has it been more brutal” and this is what is worrying for Thailand and the region.
After all, you have many Sunni Islamic insurgencies or Sunni Islamic terrorist networks in Southeast Asia. Therefore, you have the threat of these different organizations working together in order to install radical Sunni Islam. This notably applies to Eastern Indonesia (particularly Maluku) and Mindanao in the Southern Philippines.
In Eastern Indonesia and Mindanao in the Southern Philippines it is a clash between Christians and Muslims and the nation state is much weaker in both areas. However, in Indonesia the majority of Muslims support a more moderate version of Islam but in recent times radical Sunni Islam is increasing and Sunni Islamic jihadist movements have targeted both Christians and foreign nationals.
The most notable movement in the region is Jemaah Islamiya which is often linked with Al Qaeda and this Sunni terrorist Islamic organization desires to create more chaos and hatred in order to spread its influence and obtain its ultimate objective. This objective, just like the radical Sunni Islamic objective in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and other nations, is to create an Islamic Sharia state and enforce the slavery of non-Muslims by a policy of dhimmitude.
Zachary Abuza also mentions that Salafist and Wahabbi influence is also growing because moderate Sunni Muslim leaders have been sternly rebuked or attacked by conservative Sunni Islamists. Also, it is noticeable that more women are covering up in purdah and clearly this will lead to even more cultural divisions within society in Southern Thailand.
However, overall Zachary Abuza hints that the main cause in Southern Thailand is internal and currently Jemaah Islamiya is not strong enough to export its violence on a major scale to Southern Thailand. Also, Jemaah Islamiya is primarily focused on Indonesia and the security forces in Indonesia are fully aware about this problem.
Overall, it is clear that elements within Southern Thailand desire a non-Buddhist land and the role of Sunni Islamic indoctrination is now turning its hatred against moderate Sunni Muslim leaders. This hatred and alienation of the younger generation began after many studied at international universities throughout the Middle East and clearly some funding from the Middle East is being used to spread radical Sunni Islamic versions of Islam.
The government of Thailand is at a loss about the current crisis because of internal convulsions within the political system. At times the military have responded with brute force in order to contain the insurgency in Southern Thailand but at other times a more moderate approach is enforced.
Yet from a wider perspective it is clear that you have many radical Sunni Islamic terrorist organizations in Southeast Asia and terrorist networks survive and flourish in failed states or where centralization is very weak. Therefore, the future of Southern Thailand is also an issue for Indonesia and the Philippines because both nations have internal problems with radical Islam.
Also, the heart of Islam is now at war with itself and moderate versions in Southern Thailand and Indonesia are being put under tremendous pressure in certain regions. Therefore, the hidden war in Southern Thailand by radical Sunni Islamists is being aimed at moderate Muslims and Buddhists alike.
However, for the Buddhists, they face complete annihilation and one day Southern Thailand may end up like Afghanistan, Central Asia, and other areas which once had a thriving Buddhist community. It would appear that Islamization is now a reality and in time the Buddhist minority will continue to dwindle and the only saving grace at the moment for Buddhists is the military of Thailand. | 2019-04-22T17:59:01Z | https://islamicpersecution.wordpress.com/category/persecution-of-buddhists/ | Porn | Society | 0.67347 |
wordpress | In my boyhood, two iconic pictures defined our sense of place and history in our community. The first was a painting, ‘A Morning View of Bluehill Village, 1824’ by the Reverend Jonathan Fisher, a Yankee polymath who had come here fresh out of Harvard in 1795 to be the first settled minister of the village. The other was a late 19th century ‘Bird’s Eye View’, lithograph, coincidentally done 100 years after Parson Fisher’s arrival.
Fisher’s painting is a summary of his life and career in the town. Although Blue Hill, originally New Andover, was settled in 1762, near the tidal falls at what is now South Blue Hill, the young village at the head of the Bay that he painted had barely existed but for a couple of houses, and had grown up in those thirty subsequent years. Fisher’s journals carefully record his progress on the work, traipsing to the Treworgy farm on the next hill (now known after later owner’s as Greene’s Hill), with his homemade camera obscura, to make the first sketches in September 1824, and then note progress on the work until completion in April 1825.
The village spreads out below, quiet in the morning light. In the foreground a man (Fisher?) drives a snake from this Eden. There were probably roosters crowing, maybe the first hammers working on the boats under construction on the shore of the harbor, but we can’t hear those sounds. All is quiet, frozen in time.
The Fisher House from the same perspective today.
Opposite where he sat surveying the scene, on the top horizon, was Fisher’s raison d’etre for choosing this perspective: his own farm, with its tidy orchard, the meeting house where he preached just downhill, with the parade ground before it. It is a scrupulously honest picture. In the right middle ground is the Baptist meeting house, to which Fisher, a stern Calvinist, had lost much of his flock when it was founded a few years before. In a village near the Eastern Frontier, far removed from the centers of art, this painting was considered a marvel, and was revered locally long before it found its way into the collection of the Farnsworth Art Museum, and countless books about American folk art and early 19th century culture.
The second view was created by an artist using dozens of photographs taken in panoramic perspective, then mechanically re-aligned so as to appear taken from the air–a dozen years before the Wright Brothers would go aloft, and aerial photography become commonplace. What fascinates and compels me to write about these pictures this morning is that each is shows the view from almost exactly the opposite center of the other–they literally look across to each other. In the bird’s eye view, the Treworgy Farm is on the horizon about a third way from the right, and in the Fisher painting, one looks across to the spot directly below the airborne viewer.
The village has become quite a different place in the bird’s eye view. Fisher’s meetinghouse burned in 1842, and was replaced with a new Congregational Church downhill, closer to the center of the village. The Baptist meeting house has become a church, with a spire echoing that of the Congregationalists. A main street of stores, with post office and restaurants has grown up at the edge of the harbor.
A new town hall, designed by the architect son of a local shipbuilder, has just been constructed, Colonial in idea, but its Roman arched front clearly inspired by the new classical ideas of the great Chicago Exposition of a couple years before. As with Fisher’s painting, a schooner is coming into the harbor, but despite sails, this one has smoke or steam rising from a stack on its deck. Although Fisher’s village still mostly survives, the 20th century is almost there, and in the foreground is a harbinger of things to come—a big shiny new summer hotel for the newest Maine industry, rusticators.
The hotel, the Blue Hill Inn, was designed by William Ralph Emerson, the Boston architect who practically invented the shingled style of summer architecture favored on the Maine coast, and was the latest marvel of the town, supplanting the boarding houses and modest village hotel of earlier years. The Inn was not a success, and with the removal of a wing, was converted to use as a summer cottage in the early1900s. Later, it served as a temporary hospital, and in the early years of the Depression, it went up in flames.
The 21st century is not being kind to the village of the 19th and 20th centuries. Poor planning, lack of zoning, changing tastes, a little greed, changing economies and myriad other factors are wreaking changes on a scale that is unprecedented in our collective memory. Change used to be gradual, and somewhat organic (South Street, new home of both roundabout and Dunkin’ Donuts, was still a narrow gravel lane as recently as my childhood). In recent years, the change has been faster, more definitive, and more destructive. As I type this, a rotary is being constructed at the dusty crossroads to the left of the Inn, and a Dunkin Donuts is going up on the inn site, across from the supermarket and Rite Aid drugstore that started the commercial sprawl.
As to the Fisher homestead, it is preserved as a museum, its original orchard replanted a few years ago (for an article about the Fisher Orchard, click HERE.) But, a thousand feet from a car wash and a new commerical parking lot with clear development intentions, its integrity and isolation, which lasted for most of the 20th century, is clearly coming to an end as it approaches its 200th anniversary.
On another note, the photograph below, from the George Stevens Academy on-line student paper, ‘The Procrastinator’, both sums up the local ambivalence about the arrival of Dunkin’ Donuts, and on a more personal note, brings the Dilettante up short, for 43 years ago he was the editor of that paper, then called ‘The Eagle’s Nest’. At that time it was a mimeographed four-sheet (my great contribution was sharper stencil graphics), and the slick advances in technology and content make him feel very, very old indeed.
As for Jonathan Fisher, a current exhibit at the Farnsworth Art Museum explores Fisher’s ongoing fascination with the natural world in his art and writing, culminating in the book, ‘Scripture Animals’ (1833). Click HERE for more. | 2019-04-18T14:27:17Z | https://downeastdilettante.wordpress.com/category/farnsworth-art-museum/ | Porn | Science | 0.604605 |
wordpress | This summer I decided to plant a garden. I’ve lived in my house for almost fifteen years and never attempted to grow my own veggies. Probably because I have not so great memories of the labor I did in the family garden growing up–moving rocks, picking beans, squash, maters, corn, okra, cucumbers, snapping beans and snapping beans and did I mention snapping beans?
But, nonetheless, I decided to give it a shot this year. My original list of plants included tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers, squash, egg plant, and corn. (I know this because it’s still on the white board beside the front door.) I never got the egg plant or the corn, but I hiked up the hill to my school’s green house and got the rest plus some jalepeno pepper plants (with visions of salsa in my head) and hurried home to start gardening–knowing next to nothing about it.
My next door neighbor Mr. C, who is in his seventies, gardens all year long. Twelve months there’s something growing in his yard that will turn into something yummy in a pot or pan. He congratulated me on my raised beds (compliments of my brother), and I eagerly awaited veggies.
There have been some successes. I have great luck with what I call “tiny tomatoes” (because it’s more fun to say than cherry tomatoes). They’re really yummy in scrambled eggs with some Mexican style four cheese. My first harvest was four tiny tomatoes and two green beans.
And those are my successes. Tiny tomatoes and two green beans. I’ve not gotten any more green beans. My peppers? They drowned. And my cucumbers–well, they turned out to be squash.
I think I’ll just keep being grateful for the gracious gifts of Mr. C’s expertise–which includes potatoes and cabbage and zucchini and collards and . . .
I’m uber-impressed, even with your “small” successes (I can’t keep one single thing alive…and that’s inside!). And your egg scramble is making my mouth water!
Today I added some fresh basil! Good stuff. | 2019-04-19T20:16:50Z | https://tistheczn.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/my-first-garden-all-by-myself/ | Porn | Home | 0.959576 |
wordpress | And what unexpected things might happen on a train? The chap on the front of the card looks like he’s about to get up to some serious mischief. Seems like a suitable card for a couple of blokes to be sharing.
A gift from Kathy, purchased on her visit to Melbourne, 2008. | 2019-04-19T13:04:38Z | https://postcardverso.wordpress.com/category/friendship/page/2/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.866381 |
animenation | I only bought Assassin's Creed III (PS3) myself though, the other 6 were all xmas gifts from my family/relatives.
I don't think I'm a fan of Serah.
Nice, let me know how you go with FFXIII-2, I found it very hard to get into that game and ultimately gave up .
I don't actually have Final Fantasy XIII-2 yet, I will have to wait until New Year's Day to play it (my grandma had to re-order it, Amazon lost the first order somehow xD).
I'll try to remember though, heh *sets calendar reminder*.
I picked up The Swapper and Remember Me off the STEAM sale.
I just finally found out I got Ratchet Deadlocked for FREE when I bought Ratchet and Clank: Full Frontal Assault (PS3) digitally, so I downloaded that last night, will play soonish maybe.
I've still got 6 new PS3 games I can play though, so it might be awhile xD.
That was a pleasant surprise for me when I got FFA, too. Let us know how Deadlocked is, I haven't started it yet.
SteamWorld Dig (3DS eShop) - This is quickly becoming my newest addiction. It's a metroidvania game I got on the 3DS eShop where you mine underground and collect various ore and gems, as well as weird orb things, which you trade in for upgrades, such as ones for your pickaxe so you can go deeper into the mine and get better ore for more upgrades. Or more pouch space so you can stay in the mine longer. You also find items in designated parts of the mine, which makes the game become more complex as you go. I'm really surprised by it. It's not the best Metroidvania out there (I prefer finding upgrades rather than buying them, but I guess that's the whole point of the game. Having very limited pouch space, while balancing the game a bit, is really only there to artificially lengthen the game), but it does remind me that Metroidvanias are my favorite genre. I've been playing it for about 5 hours now, and I don't think I'm even a third of the way through the game. That's pretty good for an eShop game.
Well I've just discovered the Steam marketplace, so I've been selling heaps of cards that I've been holding onto for a while.
Made enough to buy myself a 'free' copy of Mark of the ninja... nice.
Some of the cutscenes are still in fullscreen, and I've noticed some lagging/jerking in the animation.
Other than that though, this game is just as good as I remember it (played it when I was a still a junior in High School).
I really got into Deadly Premonition. A flawed game, to be sure, but I dug so much about it.
Yeah, I've heard that the game has its fair share of downfalls but mostly everyone that has played it also gives it a fair amount of praise.. So I'm hoping it ends up being a good experience My only worry is that I heard it is extremely buggy and hard to run on the PC, so I'm hoping I luck out on that aspect of the game.
And this morning I bought Bioshock Infinite Season Pass because it was -75% off and only $4.99.. Bioshock Infinite went on sale quite a few times during the autumn and winter sale but yesterday was the first time I saw the season pass go on sale with it.. I've been waiting for the season pass to drop down in price before I jumped into the game, now I've got nothing holding me back.
After watching my gf's bro play AC: Black Flag last night for a bit, and talking about the AC story throughout the series from what he's read up on etc, it really got me motivated to play the games. I tried 1 and never finished it due to frustrating game freezes and being monotonous, however I've heard 2 was a very well done game and much better than 1.
So I got excited last night and bought AC:2, Revelations & Brotherhood so I can finally get into this whole Ezio story arc.
I ALMOST bought 3 on a whim as well, but I've played 3 before and only got very early into the start of the game before I got over it, but apparently the game gets a lot better after that.
I figure if I can stick out these other 3 AC games and enjoy them, THEN I'll buy AC3/4 and play through those as well.
I've invested a lot of money into the AC series and so far I've only been able to play 2 all the way through I've put a few hours into the handheld versions and almost a hour into Brotherhood.... They are great games but for some reason they can't really hold my attention for long; with the exception of AC2, once I started that game I never put it down until I finished it..
It's a little weird that AC2 is the only game I really got into and finished when all of them pretty much play the same, besides maybe Black Flag.
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wikipedia | John Gamble is a former world champion Powerlifter and strongman competitor from Richmond, Virginia.
Gamble played linebacker at Hampton University and was a first-team Black College All-America selection. He also earned All-Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association honors in football and in track and field.
World-renowned in the fields of Powerlifting and Strongman competition, Gamble was the top ranked powerlifter in the world in the 275-pound class from 1981 to 1983. His personal records for total pounds in three lifts while competing in the United States Powerlifting Federation was 2,270 pounds, and he has personal bests of full squat, 892 lb; bench press, 573 lb; and dead lift, 826.5 lb in those three lifts. Gamble was inducted into the U.S. Weightlifting Hall of Fame in York, Pennsylvania, in June 1999.
He competed twice in the final of the World's Strongest Man competition. In the 1982 World's Strongest Man he finished 3rd behind compatriot Bill Kazmaier at Magic Mountain, California and at the 1983 World's Strongest Man he placed 5th in a competition won by Geoff Capes in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Gamble served ten years (1984–1993) as the head strength coach at the University of Virginia. He also served two seasons as assistant strength coach (1982–83)] and one year on a part-time basis (1981) at Virginia. He was named 1985 Strength Coach of the Year by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Gamble became strength and conditioning coach for the Miami Dolphins in 1994 under head coach Don Shula, and remained at the post for 12 years through 2005. In 1998, he was named by the Professional Strength Coaches Society as its Coach of the Year.
In 2006, under then head coach Nick Saban, Gamble was given the title of director of player development/special assistant to the head coach. His job title was changed simply to director of player development under head coach Cam Cameron in 2007.
^ Gaughan, Mark (31 December 2012). "Bills make it official: Gailey is fired". The Buffalo News. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
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cnn | (CNN) - The McCain campaign has called him "The One" - but Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is no longer #1 on Facebook, a popular social networking Web site.
On the same day that Obama revealed his choice of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, Olympic darling Michael Phelps passed Obama in the number of "fans" or "supporters" associated with their respective pages on the site.
As of Sunday afternoon, Obama had roughly 1,383,000 "supporters" while Phelps, age 23, had more than 1,399,000 "fans."
Phelps' meteoric rise on Facebook was helped along by a congratulatory message many users saw when they logged into the site after the Baltimore swimmer captured 8 gold medals during the Beijing Games. The message contained a link to his Facebook page, where users could sign up as fans.
The Obama campaign's use of Facebook and other Web 2.0 and social networking technologies has been credited with building his base of supporters online - particularly those in the same age group as Phelps.
Though Obama now lags behind Phelps in terms of support on Facebook, the presumptive Democratic nominee is still far ahead of rival Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. McCain currently has roughly 215,000 supporters on the popular social networking site.
Phelps did not respond to CNN's request for comment about overtaking Sen. Obama on Facebook.
dumb article comparing apples to oranges. I know it is just hours before the opening of the only convention that matters and there is not much to scribble about but this is ridiculous.
Wonder how Biden feels to be the "Token White Guy?"
tsk tsk tsk!!!! is everybody at cnn on information over load? or just bored?
Brandy, NJ: Why are you making up statistics?
Chuck: Why do you have to be racial? People like you are the problem with this country. You want to claim it has nothing to do with race, but then you make comments like that and take away all doubt that you're just a racist.
1,399.000-1383.000 =16……Comparing an Olympic swimmer to a US presidential candidate?Patnetic!!!
Peter of Oregon – How many Facebook fans does Hillary Clinton or John McCain have CNN…OK CNN Don'T GO FOX NEWS ON US !!!
Republicans are just haters and can't deal with the fact that Obama is the best choice for president, who is actually for the people. congradulations to Phelps, but it shouldn't matter who is #1 on facebook. Vote Obama/Biden 08' Young people everywhere lets make a difference and vote this election and show the older people that we care about our country's future. Lets get MOTIVATED!!!!!
Phelps worked very hard to attain his goal, and is obviously proud to represent his country! He deserves top billing!
Obama is fading as an American idol and as a credible candidate for president of the United States of America!
And, a convention extravaganza will not earn him kudos any more than the big trip/big Berlin speech did.
Obama's books plus the Corsi and Freddoso books plus the words of Obama, Michelle, their mentors and friends have given Americans quite a lot to chew on. The Obama family/camp are too late in trying to tackle an image already ingrained in the minds of Americans!
ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!! MICHAEL PHELPS GOLD CAME AT A PRICE. TRAINING, SACRIFICE AND PERFORMANCE UNDER INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE. OBAMA HAS HAD HIS GOLD SHINED UP TO A MIRROR FINISH BY A MARKETING CAMPAIGN. THE SAME SORT OF MEDIA ANTICS THAT MADE CHI-COM OLYMPICS LOOK LIKE THEY WERE FROM NEBRASKA. IVE NOTICED THE WAY THINGS ARE DONE MORE NOW THAN EVER BEFORE. WHILE WE STRUGGLE WITH HIGH ENERGY THE DESPOTS OF ASIA FOAM IN OUR MONEY. WHILE WE DROWN IN HIGH GROCERY PRICES BIG AGRA EXPLOITS CHEAP LABOR OF ILLEGALS THRU POLITICAL FAVORS. ASK OL SAXBY AND TEDDY. WHILE WE WORRY ABOUT THE FUTURE INTEGRITY OF OUR ECONOMY THE BUSINESS CARD IN CHINA AND INDIA IS SHOVED UP OUR NOSES. NO,NO,NO,NO, OBAMAS FLIMSEY BAG BOY PERSONNA IS NO MORE THAN FOOLS GOLD. ITS AN ABSOLUTE SLAP IN THE FACE TO SIR PHELPS TO COMPARE HIS ACCOMPLISHMENT THIS SNAKE OIL SALESMAN. GET REAL WHEN YOU INCLUDE HEROES WITH HOWARD DEAN STOOGES.
Obama slipping in the polls and on face book. Hillary people bailing on him after he snubbed her for VP. I'm taking bets that the stadium will be less than half full for his DNC acceptance speech.
Thats the life of a Rockstar, fans can be so fickle. His campaign is starting to look like a farewell tour.
No Obama in 2008? Ok then...No HILLARY in 2012! Because of you PUMA's, she will NEVER get my vote.
Let's let the Republicans rule this country forever!
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I AM SO SICK OF CNN's NEGATIVE REPORTING AGAINST BARACK, that I have a suggestion for all of BARACK'S SUPPORTERS. LET US BOYCOTT CNN, UNTIL THEY GET THE MESSAGE, THAT WE ARE TOTALLY OUTRAGED ABOUT THE WAY THEY REPORT THE SO-CALLED "NEWS" ABOUT BARACK!
Seriously there are so many other sites with as good or better news coverage that WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE TOTAL NEGATIVITY OF JOHN KING, WOLF BLITZER, AND THE EVER OFFENSIVE LOU DOBBS!
Who cares about Michael Phelps. He had his few days of fame and in due time his record will be broken just like Mark Spitz' was.
Ironic, considering they're about equally qualified to be commander and chief...actually, Phelps probably has the edge there. | 2019-04-26T16:05:06Z | http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/08/24/michael-phelps-overtakes-obama-on-facebook/ | Porn | Sports | 0.5798 |
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wordpress | SUMMARY: Fractured is a collection that examines brokenness. Through poetry, short fiction, and the personal nonfiction essay, I look at the ways life breaks apart, from the literal breaking of objects to the shattering relationships and of self.
WHY THIS TITLE?: I came up with the idea for the collection after I wrote the title essay, Fractured. I realized that this was a theme in a lot of my work, so I started curating pieces for the collection from there. It seemed natural that I would name the book after the essay.
W HY SOMEONE WOULD WANT TO READ IT: There’s a lot of emotion involved, so even if someone hasn’t experienced the exact situation, they will be able to relate to the emotion of it. We’ve all experienced brokenness at one time or another. It helps to know that we’re not alone.
“Fractured” examines the cracks that run through all our lives. It is engaging and very real. It draws the reader in and holds them until the final page. Erin Britt shows us that we are all fractured and gives hope that even though the cracks are there, being fractured doesn’t have to be a fatal flaw.”– Lori Hicks.
AUTHOR PROFILE: I started writing horrible poetry at age 12. I fell in love with language, so I continued to write horrible poetry into adulthood. It wasn’t until I was a single mom in college that I considered taking a creative writing class. Since then, I’ve earned a BA in English-Creative Writing from Indiana University and will receive my MA in English from there in May 2016. My first novella, CELIA, was published in 2013 through Rainstorm Press. I’ve had several personal essays published in various collections and original academic scholarship published in the university’s Graduate Research Journal. My poems “Howl” and “Your Secret Admirer” are included in the horror anthology HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT, and “Your Secret Admirer” won the Editor’s Choice Award for poetry. I have a short story, “Blood and Rain,” coming out in 2016 in the suspense anthology EDGE OF DARKNESS from Dark Chapter Press. I’m also the editor of Erindipity Editing.
AUTHOR COMMENTS: Of all the pieces in the collection, “Fractured” was the hardest one to write. It is probably the hardest one to read, as well. I put parts of myself into everything I write, but as a nonfiction personal essay, “Fractured” is entirely me and what I was feeling in that situation. It’s scary to put so much out there, but you have to bleed on the page to make a connection. This collection left me with more than a few cuts.
I’ve always hated this question. It’s innocent enough on the face of it, just a way to get to know someone better, but I don’t how to answer it without explaining more than I’m comfortable with. I’m an only child, yet I’m the youngest of three; I’m the oldest of two but I’m the second youngest of four; I’m the second youngest of five until I’m the second youngest of four again; I’m the third oldest of seven. All of this was my father’s doing, shedding wives the way that reptiles molt, collecting and losing children along the way.
I didn’t meet Lorrie, his first wife, until I was a teenager. My mother was his second wife. I grew up knowing I had an older brother and sister living in Ohio, but they didn’t know about me. I guess Lori thought it was easier to pretend I didn’t exist. I think she still does. I met my older siblings when I was seven. It was the beginning of our yearly summer ritual. I spent most of my time as the oldest of two, so it excited me to try being the second youngest of four for a while. I idolized my sister and I followed her around the way smoke follows a fire when it moves: she was brightness and warmth; I was soot and suffocation. She humored me with artificial patience and as soon as she was no longer obligated to do so, she tolerated me no longer. My brother was my hero, and his ego appreciated that. Still, he rarely went out of his way to be my brother, so when it was no longer convenient to be so, he claimed me no longer. We didn’t spend time writing letters or making phone calls, so except for those summer visits, they didn’t exist at all. I still counted them.
Ruth was his third wife. That was her middle name, Ruth. Her first name was Nila, the same as my mother, and going to the doctor or checking the mail became problematic because “Nila Britt” could mean anyone. Many a time I heard my mother say, “No, I’m the other one” into the phone. Ruth was his wife in my earliest memories and her daughter, Kristy, was my sister. She was never my step-sister, although that’s exactly what she was, and Ruth was never Ruth. She was my mother, to hear her tell it, though she was dedicated to her hatred of me. To my knowledge, I did nothing wrong beyond existing in the first place. Calling her anything other than “mom” guaranteed some form of punishment from my father, and Kristy liked to tattle. She resented me, so she made sure they knew every slip, every “your mom” instead of “mom.” My father divorced Ruth when I was twelve; Kristy was no longer my sister, step or otherwise, and Ruth was finally Ruth whether she liked it or not. My father blamed us, Kristy and me, for his divorce. Our inability to get along was too much for his delicate marriage to endure, and he made sure to tell us as much. It had nothing to do with his affair with Tami.
Tami is his fourth wife. To his credit, he actually married his mistress, and remained married to her. He was terrified to be alone, always lining up a new woman before abandoning the old one. She brought three children into the marriage, two step-brothers and a step-sister, so my sibling count doubled. I was six years older than her oldest child, and my older sister was six years older than me, so my father obliviously created a certain symmetry. Tami was always Tami. She didn’t try to be my mother and I never encouraged her to try. Like Ruth, Tami didn’t much care for me; unlike Ruth, Tami didn’t put much effort into making sure I knew it.
don’t interact much, I do see him during holidays and at funerals. The last three are out there somewhere. I had my youngest step-brother in a speech class once and he either never realized who I was, or did and hoped I had forgotten him. I didn’t, but I said nothing anyway.
Do I have any siblings? Yes, I have one, and I am the oldest. | 2019-04-26T00:42:46Z | https://snowflakesarise.wordpress.com/2016/03/15/fractured/ | Porn | Society | 0.084003 |
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livejournal | Lunch date today - can't wait!
Not much else to report - wrist still sore, kids still...themselves, horses/dogs still doing their things.
Trying to decide what to do with the bonus - taxes are a given, as is the water filtration system. I need to splurge on something frivolous, I think - the kids are taken care of, thanks to the Holidays, but me? I need something....silly and over-the-top, methinks. Must ponder this.....(No, no other spinning wheel. I'm still patiently awaiting my AA Production, and that will be the last one, I think. I don't *need* another one - between the 3 AAs I already have, and this one, I'll be pretty well set. Don't need another loom, either - although Sweet Geek might. :grin: Yes, I'm enabling. We'll see if it sticks. :evil grin:) Might need to browse the celtic jewelry sites again....I'm eyeballing torques, and have been, but not sure that's a look I can pull off. Hmmm. | 2019-04-23T23:02:35Z | https://fiberaddict.livejournal.com/284434.html | Porn | Shopping | 0.76321 |
columbia | This project builds upon our discovery that exposure to arsenic (As) and manganese (Mn) in drinking water has adverse effects on intelligence in children. The research under project 2 now focuses on the consequences of As and Mn exposure on respiratory and neuropsychological functions in 780 adolescents in Bangladesh.
We successfully launched this new study in 2012, and recruitment has continued to go well since then. To date over 355 participants have been enrolled. Each study participant visits our field clinic twice, one week apart. At the first visit we perform standard pulmonary function tests by spirometry, and also collect exhaled breath condensate (over a ten minute period) for the measurement of pH and 8-isoprostane levels. Low pH and elevated 8-isoprostane are indicators of pulmonary inflammation. At the second visit, we assess child IQ and also administer seven subtests of the CANTAB, a computerized assessment of brain/neuropsychological functioning.
Basically, this study first asks whether the As-induced respiratory disease observed in adults also manifests itself in adolescents, and what are possible physiologic mechanisms? Second, to what extent do associations between WAs and both lung function and brain function reflect the effects of exposure in utero and in infancy, periods of dramatic development for these systems? Third, are WAs and WMn associated with specific domains of cognitive function in addition to overall intelligence?
The study draws on an existing sample of 780 adolescents (15-17 years old) whose mothers are participants in the HEALS Study (Project #1). Based on mothers' well As, measured five times from 2000 until the present, we were able to define four groups of adolescents with varying levels and patterns of exposure to As. Defined on the basis of WAs levels, four groups include adolescents with exposures that are: Group 1) consistently low (mean WAs = 3 ppb); Group 2) consistently moderate (mean WAs = 26 ppb); Group 3) consistently high (mean WAs = 146 ppb); and Group 4) high from conception through roughly age one (mean WAs = 201 ppb) but much lower thereafter (mean WAs =13 ppb). Within each group, there is wide variation in WMn concentrations. Three specific aims target As exposure and pulmonary function (FEV1 and FVC) as well as biomarkers of lung dysfunction in exhaled breath condensate.
Three additional aims expand our earlier work on As, Mn and neuropsychologic outcomes by considering components of Executive Function (planning, sustained attention, working memory) that have been mapped to brain regions thought to be affected by exposure to these elements. Components of Executive Function will be measured with the Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB), a computerized and well validated set of tests; intelligence will also be assessed. We are examining adolescents, an understudied age group, because certain components of Executive Function and lung development do not mature until this age; studies with younger children would miss these health effects.
Collectively, the work conducted in this project has contributed to the growing body of knowledge concerning the adverse health effects of both As and Mn on children’s health. We believe that knowledge of these adverse health effects on children will increase the rate at which families will alter their behavior – both in the United States and abroad – to test their wells and pursue remediation when necessary. | 2019-04-21T00:52:45Z | http://superfund.ciesin.columbia.edu/project_pg/94 | Porn | Science | 0.586817 |
wordpress | April | 2013 | The Computer Says How?
It’s happening again folks. Just when we thought the BPM versus Case Management discussion had been finally put to bed Forrester have gone round blasting their car horn and woke the debate up with their publication today of their Smart Process Application (SPA) wave. In this sequel the debate has moved to the cloud.
Forrester define Smart Process Applications as packaged process apps that encompass many of the characteristics we associate with case management business processes including collaboration and variability. SPA characteristics include ease of use with the ability to be modified rapidly in response to changing business and market conditions. Crucially they expect the cloud to be the primary delivery infrastructure for SPAs making them easier to deploy, support and continuously improve.
However an already established definition, BPaaS (Business Process as a Service) exists for business processes delivered based on the cloud services model. So what’s the difference between a SPA and BPaaS? Are they the same thing? Are SPA’s a subset of BPaaS? Or are we about to have another debate over transactional versus variable business processes, BPM versus Case Management?
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Seales began his legal career as a trial attorney for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (1975-1989). He then moved into state government serving eight years as Senior Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Antitrust and Consumer Litigation for the State of Virginia. In 1998, President Clinton appointed Seales Chief Counsel of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration – the first African-American to hold the position. In 2001, Seales became the General Counsel of the District of Columbia Department of Transportation.
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Methods and apparatus for analyzing memory defects in an embedded memory are described. According to certain embodiments, the analysis can be performed “at-speed” and can be used to analyze multi-bit failures in words of a word-oriented memory. According to some embodiments, the analysis comprises updating a record of column defects not repaired by spare rows as the memory is being tested. The record can be evaluated after a test to determine whether a repair strategy can successfully repair a memory-under-test.
This invention relates generally to testing integrated circuits, and more particularly to testing embedded memories of integrated circuits.
These and other features are set forth below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the creation of a database using, for example, the network of FIG. 12.
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram illustrating an exemplary multiplexed-architecture memory 200. In the illustrated memory 200, each word address is divided into two parts: a column address and a row address. Further, in the illustrated embodiment and in a typical multiplexed memory, each row 230 contains more than one word such that an aspect ratio (i.e., the ratio of the length of the memory block to the width of the block) is normalized. The level of normalization for a given row 230 (i.e., the number of words in a given row) is defined as the memory's mux level. For example, the mux level of the illustrated memory 200 is four because each row 230 contains four two-bit words. As is also illustrated by the memory 200 in FIG. 2, two columns 220 of the same word (e.g., column 222 and column 224 of word “A0”) are not located successively within the memory array. In general, the multiplexed arrangement reduces the likelihood of cross-coupling between bits of the same word.
FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of an exemplary BIST architecture 300 that includes a representative embodiment of a built-in self-repair analyzer (BISRA) 310 according to the disclosed technology. In particular, FIG. 3 shows the functional components of the BIST architecture 300 and the BISRA 310 and an example of how they can be coupled to one another. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, a BIST controller 312 generates, for example, memory test data, test addresses, and control signals used to test a memory-under-test 316. A BIST wrapper 314 applies the memory test data to the memory-under-test 316 and generates failure maps that indicate whether a particular word tested has any failing memory cells or defects. The failure map can be generated, for example, by writing test data into a memory word, reading the memory word to obtain an output from the memory word, and comparing the output with expected data. The BIST wrapper 314 is also coupled to a BISRA wrapper 318 such that it can send the failure map and the corresponding memory address to the BISRA wrapper 318. The BISRA wrapper desirably includes one or more BISRA engines configured to evaluate and analyze the failure maps using one or more repair strategies. The BISRA wrapper 318 is controlled by a BISRA controller 320. Outputs from the BISRA controller 320 comprise, for example, a repair-data path 322, which can be used to send repair information to a component that actually performs the memory repair (e.g., automatic test equipment (ATE)), and a repairable/unrepairable signal 324, which can be used to indicate whether or not the memory is repairable. In some embodiments, the BISRA controller 320 is further configured to restart the BIST controller 312 via a restart path 326.
FIG. 4 shows an exemplary embodiment 400 of the BISRA wrapper 318. In the illustrated embodiment, multiple BISRA engines 410 are used to apply various repair strategies to the failure maps input from the BIST wrapper 314. For example, according to one desirable embodiment, the BISRA wrapper 318 contains C(m+n, m) BISRA engines 410. In this embodiment, each BISRA engine 410 applies a different repair strategy for allocating spare resources to the memory-under-test 316 (e.g., for a memory array having two spare rows and two spare columns, six BISRA engines apply six respective repair strategies: RRCC, RCRC, RCCR, CRRC, CRCR, and CCRR). In one particular implementation of this embodiment, the multiple BISRA engines 410 are operated in parallel in order to evaluate all relevant repair strategies during a single test of the memory-under-test 316.
The BISRA engines 410 illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 5 comprise two functional blocks: a spare-resource allocation (SRA) block 420 and a control-and-report (CAR) block 422. The SRA block 420 is configured to allocate spare memory resources according to a corresponding repair strategy. The CAR block 422 is configured to evaluate the failure maps received and determine whether or not the repair strategy for which the SRA block 420 is configured is successful. In some embodiments, the BISRA engine 410 uses a record of column defects, which is more fully described below, to store column-failure information and to enable at-speed analysis of a selected repair strategy.
In certain embodiments, if two or more BISRA engines 410 indicate that their respective repair strategies can be used successfully to repair the memory-under-test 316, a determination circuit 430 (termed an “arbiter” in FIG. 4) selects which one of the successful strategies should be used to repair the memory-under-test 316. The arbiter 430 can be configured, for example, to select the repair strategy that uses the fewest spare resources, is the first to be reported, or meets some other predetermined criteria.
According to one implementation, if the repair strategy for a respective BISRA engine 410 is successful and if the arbiter 430 selects the BISRA engine, the corresponding CAR 422 sends repair data to the BISRA controller 320 along a path 440. The repair data can include, for example, faulty row addresses and column addresses as determined, for example, from the record of column defects discussed below.
FIG. 5 illustrates another embodiment 500 of the BISRA wrapper 318. In this embodiment, only one BISRA engine 510 is used to perform the self-repair analysis of a memory-under-test 316. According to one particular embodiment, the BISRA engine 510 analyzes tests of the memory-under-test 316 using one repair strategy at a time. In some embodiments, the BISRA engine 510 can stop the self-repair analysis, for example, when one of the repair strategies succeeds in repairing the memory-under-test 316.
In the illustrated embodiment, a repair-strategy-reconfiguration (RSR) block 530 is configured to load different repair strategies into the BISRA engine 510 and to send a restart signal 532 to the BIST controller 312 used to restart the BIST. In certain embodiments, external automatic test equipment (ATE) can scan in a new repair strategy. In other embodiments, however, the new repair strategy is generated internally (e.g., via a linear feedback shift register (LFSR)). For example, if an LFSR is used to generate the repair strategy, the polynomials output from the LFSR can be configured to represent the possible repair strategies. Thus, for instance, if “1” denotes a spare row and “0” denotes a spare column and if there are two spare rows and two spare columns available for memory repair, the LFSR polynomial “1001” represents the repair strategy “RCCR.” The LFSR can then be configured to produce all possible repair strategies (e.g., the LFSR can be configured to produce the exemplary sequence: 1001, 1010, 0101, 1100, 0110, 0011).
For any of the BISRA architectures described above, the BISRA controller 312 can send repair information to the external ATE after the repair analysis is performed. In one embodiment, for example, the BISRA controller 312 sends a one-bit signal to the ATE indicating that the one or more memories tested are repairable. If there is more than one memory, the BISRA controller can send a memory number to the ATE, followed by row-address and/or column-address information corresponding to the rows and/or columns to be repaired. In one implementation, a leader bit may be used to indicate whether the information being sent is a row address or a column address (e.g., a “1” can be inserted before a row address, and a “0” can be inserted before a column address). In some embodiments, two separate clock domains may be employed: a BIST-clock domain and an ATE-clock domain. In certain implementations of these embodiments, the BIST clock is the same as the system clock, whereas the ATE clock is slower. In these embodiments, BIST can be performed “at-speed” (i.e., at the operating speed of the memory-under-test). As more fully explained below, certain embodiments of the BISRA engine(s) described herein also desirably operate “at-speed,” without pausing or stopping during the BIST of the memory. In some of these embodiments, post-BIST processing is used to determine whether a particular repair strategy succeeds. Faulty column and faulty row addresses can then be scanned out to the external ATE using the ATE clock. In order to reduce the likelihood of synchronization problems between the two clock domains, a two-stage synchronizer can be used.
For any of the embodiments described above, column-failure information can be recorded and continuously updated in the BISRA wrapper 318 during BIST. For example, according to certain embodiments of the disclosed technology, a set of memory elements (e.g., latches or flip-flops) is utilized during BIST to maintain a record of which columns of the memory-under-test need repair without storing the particular addresses of the defective columns. This record is usually referred to herein as the record of column defects. In certain embodiments, no spare columns are assigned to repair a memory-under-test until after the words of the memory-under-test have been tested. Further, in some embodiments, the record of column defects keeps track of columns in the memory-under-test that contain defects and that are not repaired by spare rows assigned by the BISRA during BIST.
In one particular implementation, the record of column defects is termed a column repair vector (CRV) and comprises a series of bits stored in a set of memory elements (e.g., latches or flip-flops) wherein each bit of the set corresponds to a column of the memory and has a value indicative of whether an error was found in the respective column (e.g., “1” may represent a defect, whereas “0” represents no defect). The values stored in the CRV can be updated using information obtained during BIST. For example, the CRV can be updated at-speed during the memory test using the failure maps output from the BIST wrapper 314. In one particular embodiment, for example, a failure map for a word tested is logically combined (e.g., logically ORed) with previous values stored in the CRV when one or more defects found in the failure map are not repaired by a spare column or covered by the current CRV. By logically updating the CRV, the CRV continuously maintains a history of what columns in the memory-under-test are to be repaired utilizing a spare column using a minimal amount of memory resources.
For purposes of illustrating the operation of a BISRA using a record of column defects, an exemplary method of analyzing whether a particular repair strategy can repair a memory-under-test is described with reference to FIG. 6. The exemplary method illustrated in FIG. 6 is primarily used to repair memories having a linear architecture and utilizes a CRV as the record of column defects (though any other suitable record could be used). In the exemplary method, failure maps (sometimes called defect maps) from the words tested are output from the BIST components of the chip to the BISRA components (e.g., from the BIST wrapper 314 to the BISRA wrapper 318). At process block 610, a failure map for a word being tested is received. At process block 615, the failure map is evaluated to determine which columns of the tested word, if any, have a failing or defective bit. In one embodiment, a “1” in the failure map indicates that a difference between the expected memory output and the tested memory output was found. If there is only a one-bit difference found, the failure may be termed a single-bit failure; if there are multiple-bit differences found, the failure may be termed a multiple-bit failure. If no failing bits are detected, then the method 600 is repeated for the next failure map. If one or more failing bits are identified, a determination is made at process block 620 as to whether the failing bit(s) identified in the failure map are already set in the CRV or are repairable by previously allocated spare rows. In some embodiments, however, process block 620 only involves determining whether the failing bits(s) identified in the failure map are already set in the CRV. For example, if the memory-under-test is tested multiple times using multiple different test patterns (e.g., to test different stuck-at faults), then it can be useful to check the previously allocated spare rows at process block 620. In these embodiments, the CRV and the previously allocated spare rows can be checked simultaneously such that the analysis can be performed at-speed. If the failing bit(s) are not already in the CRV and not already repaired by the allocated spare rows, then the method 600 proceeds to process block 630, otherwise the method 600 is repeated for the next failure map. At process block 630, the current spare resource (as determined by the relevant repair strategy of the BISRA engine) is evaluated. If there are no more spare resources available, then the memory is deemed unrepairable using the current repair strategy. In one embodiment, the BISRA controller may send a corresponding unrepairable signal to the external ATE or other repair hardware. In the illustrated embodiment, if the current spare resource is a spare row, then the spare row is allocated to repair the faulty row. When the spare row is allocated to the faulty row, the row address is stored in a memory of the BISRA engine (e.g., a content-addressable memory (CAM)). If the current spare resource is a spare column, however, the spare column is merely “reserved” for the defect by updating the record of column defects. In one embodiment, for instance, the spare column is reserved by updating the CRV by logically ORing the failure map with the current CRV. It should be noted that in this exemplary embodiment, only a single spare resource is evaluated per cycle. In other embodiments, however, multiple spare resources can be evaluated in a single cycle. Evaluating multiple spare resources during a single cycle, however, can slow the analysis process down and/or add significant additional logic or other area overheard. Based on these speed and area overhead concerns, it is ordinarily desirable to evaluate only a single spare resource per cycle. At process block 640, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource in the relevant repair strategy. At process block 650, the next word of the memory-under-test is considered.
In one embodiment, a post-BIST analysis is performed after the memory has been tested and the failure maps analyzed by a suitable analysis method, such as the method 600 described in FIG. 6. In the post-BIST method 700 illustrated in FIG. 7, for example, a determination is made at process block 710 as to whether the number of defects indicated by the record of column defects (e.g., the CRV) is greater than the number of available spare columns. If the number of defect bits set in the record of column defects is greater than the number of available spare columns, then the memory is deemed unrepairable using the current repair strategy at process block 720. If the number of defect bits set in the record of column defects is less than or equal to the number of available spare columns, however, then the memory is deemed repairable at process block 730. At process block 740, the column addresses corresponding to the defects found and the row addresses stored during BIST are sent to a repair component (e.g., an external ATE) that performs the actual repair. Thus, in certain embodiments, the spare row resources are allocated during the memory test, whereas the spare column resources are allocated after the memory test.
FIG. 8 illustrates the methods shown in FIGS. 6 and 7. FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a linear-architecture memory 800 containing several defects. The memory 800 contains memory cells that correspond to column addresses 802 and row addresses 804. Ovals 810 in FIG. 8 indicate memory cells that are defective. In this particular example, the memory 800 is tested sequentially by row, starting with row 0 and ending at row 4. The numbers inside the ovals 810 of FIG. 8 denote the order in which the errors are discovered during the test of memory 800.
At process blocks 610 and 615 of the exemplary method 600, the failure map from row 0 is received and evaluated for the presence of any defects. Because no defects are found in row 0, the failure map reads “00000” and the exemplary method proceeds to the next row. Row 1 contains two defects. Thus, in one particular implementation, the corresponding failure map reads “10001.” Consequently, the exemplary method proceeds to process block 620, where it is determined that neither the bits of the CRV (which still equals “00000”) nor any previously allocated spare rows cover the detected errors. At process block 630, the current spare resource is evaluated. According to the corresponding repair strategy (CCRR), a first spare column (C1) is reserved for the errors and the CRV is updated by logically ORing the failure map with the current CRV (i.e., “10001”+“00000”=“10001”). At process block 640, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource, which is the second spare column (C2). At process block 650, the next word of memory and the next failure map are considered.
Row 2 contains three defects and has a failure map of “01110.” Consequently, the exemplary method proceeds to process block 620, where it is again determined that neither the bits of the CRV (which now equals “10001”) nor any previously allocated spare row covers the detected errors. Thus, at process block 630, the current spare resource is evaluated. As a result of the evaluation, the second spare column (C2) is reserved for the errors in row 2 and the CRV is updated (i.e., “10001”+“01110”=“11111”). At process block 640, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource, which is the first spare row (R1). At process block 650, the next word of memory and the next failure map are considered.
Row 3 also contains three defects and has a failure map of “01110.” Consequently, the exemplary method proceeds to process block 620. At process block 620, it is determined that the error bits detected in the failure map are covered by the current CRV. That is, each bit set in the failure map corresponds to a bit set in the CRV. Accordingly, the current spare resource is not allocated or reserved for the errors, and at process block 650, the next word of memory and the next failure map of the memory are considered.
Row 4 contains no defects, so the exemplary method terminates after process block 615. Because the exemplary memory 800 contains no further rows of memory, the BIST of the memory 800 ends and a post-BIST evaluation is performed.
In the post-BIST evaluation, a method such as the one described above with respect to FIG. 7 can be utilized. For example, according to the method shown in FIG. 7, a determination is made at process block 710 as to whether the number of bits set in the CRV is greater than the number of spare columns available. In this example, there are more bits set in the CRV than spare columns available. Thus, at process block 720, a determination is made that the memory cannot be repaired using the selected repair strategy (CCRR).
As seen by the column labeled “allocated rows,” no spare row is ever allocated to repair a defect when the repair strategy CCRR is analyzed according to the method 600 described above.
Now assume that the repair strategy for the BISRA engine is “CRRC.” At process blocks 610 and 615 of the exemplary method 600, the failure map from row 0 is received and evaluated for the presence of any defects. Because no defects are found in row 0, the failure map reads “00000” and the method 600 proceeds to the next row.
Row 1 contains two defects. Thus, the corresponding failure map reads “10001.” Consequently, the exemplary method proceeds to process block 620, where it is determined that neither the bits of the CRV (which still equals “00000”) nor any previously allocated spare row covers the detected errors. At process block 630, the current spare resource is evaluated. According to the corresponding repair strategy (CRRC), the current spare resource is a first spare column (C1), which is reserved for the errors. The CRV is updated by logically ORing the failure map with the current CRV (i.e., “10001”+“00000”=“10001”). At process block 640, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource, which is the first spare row (R1). At process block 650, the next word of memory and the next failure map are considered.
Row 2 contains three defects and has a failure map of “01110.” Consequently, the exemplary method proceeds to process block 620, where it is again determined that neither the bits of the CRV (which now equals “10001”) nor any previously allocated spare row covers the detected errors. Thus, at process block 630, the current spare resource is evaluated. As a result of the evaluation, the first spare row (R1) is allocated to the errors. Because the spare resource is a spare row (not a spare column), the CRV is not updated. At process block 640, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource, which is the second spare row (R2). At process block 650, the next word of memory and the next failure map are considered.
Row 3 also contains three defects and has a failure map of “01110.” Consequently, the exemplary method proceeds to process block 620. At process block 620, it is determined that the error bits detected in the failure map are not covered by the current CRV or any previously allocated spare rows. Thus, at process block 630, the current spare resource is evaluated. As a result of the evaluation, the second spare row (R2) is allocated to the error. Because the spare resource is a spare row (not a spare column), the CRV is not updated. At process block 640, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource, which is the second spare column (C2), and at process block 650, the next word of memory and the next failure map are considered.
Row 4 contains no defects, so the exemplary method 600 terminates after process block 615. Because the exemplary memory 800 contains no further rows of memory, the BIST of the memory 800 ends and a post-BIST evaluation is performed. For example, according to the method shown in FIG. 7, a determination is made at process block 710 as to whether the number of bits set in the CRV is greater than the number of spare columns available. Here, there are the same number of bits set in the CRV as spare columns available. Thus, at process block 730, the memory is deemed repairable and, at process block 740, the corresponding column addresses and row addresses (columns 0 and 4 and rows 2 and 3) are sent to the component that performs the actual repair.
The method described above with respect to FIG. 6 can be modified slightly in order to repair memories with a multiplexed architecture. In a multiplexed architecture, a logical row in a memory consists of several words. During memory BIST, the BIST controller 312 sequentially writes and reads words from the memory. In one embodiment, a record of column defects having a size equal to the total number of bits in a row of the memory is used to implement the repair strategy. For example, for a multiplexed memory having an 8-bit word width and 32 words per row of memory (i.e., a MUX level of 32), a 256-bit CRV could be used. In this embodiment, the self-repair analysis proceeds substantially as it would with a linear-memory architecture, with some minor bit manipulation to ensure that when the record of column defects is updated with the failure map, the results are recorded in the correct bit locations of the record.
FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an exemplary method 900 by which a BISRA engine may be operated to repair a memory having a multiplexed architecture. In the exemplary method 900, the record of column defects comprises multiple W-CRVs (though any equivalent word-oriented records could be used). As with the exemplary method 600 described above, failure maps are sent from the BIST components to the BISRA components during testing. At process block 910, the failure map for a word being tested is received. At process block 915, a determination is made as to whether the failure map indicates the presence of any failing bits in the current word being tested. If no failing bit(s) are detected, then the exemplary method 900 is repeated for the next failure map. If one or more failing bits are detected, a determination is made at process block 920 as to whether the failing bit(s) identified in the failure map are already repairable by previously allocated spare rows. If the failing bit(s) are not already repaired by the allocated spare rows, then the method 900 proceeds to process block 930. At process block 930, the current spare resource (as determined by the relevant repair strategy of the BISRA engine) is evaluated. If there are no more spare resources available, then, in one embodiment, the memory is deemed unrepairable using the current repair strategy. If the current spare resource is a spare row, then the spare row is allocated to repair the faulty row. When the spare row is allocated to the faulty row, the row address is also stored. If the current spare resource is a spare column, a determination is made as to whether the word in which the defect(s) are found is at a word position already stored in an existing W-CRV. If the defective word's position has already been stored, then the W-CRV corresponding to the defective word's position is evaluated to determine whether the defect(s) are already recorded in the W-CRV and, if not, the W-CRV is updated by ORing the failure map with the W-CRV. If the defective word's position has not already been stored in an existing W-CRV, and if the available W-CRVs have not all been used, then the failure map is ORed with a new W-CRV. At process block 940, the current spare resource is updated to the next spare resource (unless at process block 930 an existing W-CRV covered the defects detected) according to the relevant repair strategy. At process block 950, the next word of memory and the next failure map are considered.
To illustrate how word-oriented records of column defects, and W-CRVs in particular, can be used to analyze multiplexed memory architectures, reference is made to FIG. 10, which schematically illustrates four examples of a defective multiplexed memory 1000. For the examples shown in FIG. 10, assume that the only spare resources available are two spare columns and the word-oriented records of column defects are W-CRVs. In FIG. 10, a multiplexed memory 1000 with a word size of 8 bits and with 32 words per row (i.e., a MUX-level of 32) is schematically shown. For ease of illustration, the bits of each word are shown together, rather than physically separated as they would be in the actual multiplexed architecture (as illustrated in FIG. 2).
In case 1, for example, when the BISRA engine encounters the first error in word 31, a first W-CRV is updated to “00010000” (i.e., “00010000”+“00000000”=“00010000”) and word 31 is stored in the word-address bits of the W-CRV. When the BISRA encounters the second error in a different row, but in the same word position 31, the first W-CRV is updated at process block 930 with the new failure map to “00010100” (i.e., “00010000”+“00000100”=“00010100”). In this case, post-BIST evaluation will determine that the repair strategy works because there are two total defective column bits and two spare column resources.
In case 2, when the BISRA engine encounters the first error in word 0, a first W-CRV is updated to “00010000” (i.e., “00010000”+“00000000”=“00010000”) and word 0 is stored in the word-address bits of the first W-CRV. When the BISRA engine encounters the second error in word 1, which is recognized by the BISRA engine as different than word 0, a second W-CRV is updated to “00000100” (i.e., “00000100”+“00000000”=“00000100”) and a word 1 is stored in the word-address bits of the second W-CRV. In this case, post-BIST evaluation will determine that the repair works because there are two total defective column bits and two spare column resources. If, however, the first W-CRV contained two defective column bits, whereas the second W-CRV contained one defective column bit, the repair strategy would fail because the number of defective columns would exceed the available spare column resources.
In case 3, a multi-bit failure occurs in word 1. When the BISRA engine encounters word 1, a first W-CRV is updated to “00100100” (i.e., “00100100”+“00000000”=“00100100”) and word 1 is stored in the word-address bits of the W-CRV. In this case, post-BIST evaluation will determine that the repair strategy is successful because there are two total defective column bits and two spare column resources.
In case 4, when the BISRA engine encounters the first error in word 0, a first W-CRV is updated to “00010000” (i.e., “00010000”+“00000000”=“00010000”) and word 0 is stored in the word-address bits of the first W-CRV. When the BISRA engine encounters the second error in word 31, a second W-CRV is updated to “00000100” (i.e., “00000100”+“00000000”=“00000100”) and word 31 is stored in the word-address bits of the second W-CRV. When the BISRA engines encounters the third error in word 1 and recognizes that word 1 is not stored in either the first or second W-CRVs, the repair analysis ends at process block 930 because no further spare resources are available.
A selection tree 1100 as illustrated in FIG. 11 may be used to determine the repair strategies that do not need to be evaluated. First branches 1110 of the tree 1100 are the first spare resources considered in the repair strategy, second branches 1120 are the second spare resources considered, and so on for third branches 1130 and fourth branches 1140. When a particular branch is found to fail (e.g., because the number of defects in the CRV is greater than the total number of spare columns), all downstream branches will similarly fail and need not be tested. Thus, the selection tree 1100 can be “pruned” at this point. For instance, using the example recited above and starting with repair strategy CCRR, assume that the number of defect bits in the CRV after the first spare-resource allocation (C) exceeds the total number of spare columns. Any repair strategy using a spare column initially will similarly fail, and the strategy tree can be “pruned” at point 1102 so that no further searches beginning with a spare column are utilized. This procedure eliminates superfluous computation and decreases the overall repair time.
Any of the aspects of the technology described above may be performed or designed using a distributed computer network. FIG. 12 shows one such exemplary network. A server computer 1200 can have an associated storage device 1202 (internal or external to the server computer). For example, the server computer 1200 can be configured to design BISRA components according to any of the embodiments described above (e.g., as part of an EDA software tool). The server computer 1200 may be coupled to a network, shown generally at 1204, which can comprise, for example, a wide-area network, a local-area network, a client-server network, the Internet, or other such network. One or more client computers, such as those shown at 1206, 1208, may be coupled to the network 1204 using a network protocol.
FIG. 13 shows that a database containing design information (e.g., a netlist) may be updated to include design information for BISRA components according to any of the embodiments disclosed herein using a remote server computer, such as the server computer 1200 shown in FIG. 12. In process block 1300, for example, the client computer sends design data relating to a memory to be tested or analyzed using one of the disclosed BISRA schemes. For instance, the client computer may send a netlist or other EDA design database. In process block 1302, the data is received and loaded by the server computer. In process block 1304, the database received is analyzed and a BISRA architecture according to any of the disclosed embodiments created. This new design data can be stored as an updated version of the design database or as one or more separate databases. In process block 1306, the server computer sends the updated database or other databases to the client computer, which receives the database in process block 1308. It should be apparent to those skilled in the art that the example shown in FIG. 13 is not the only way to update a design database to include the relevant BISRA design data. For instance, the design data may be stored in a computer-readable media that is not on a network and that is sent separately to the server. Or, the server computer may perform only a portion of the design procedures.
evaluating the record of column defects after the testing to determine whether the memory-under-test is repairable using the repair strategy.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein multiple defects are found in a word tested, and the record of column defects is updated to include the multiple defects.
3. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending row-address information and column-address information to external test equipment if the evaluating determines that the memory-under-test is repairable using the repair strategy.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of column defects comprises a set of bits, each bit in the set corresponding to a respective column in the memory-under-test and having a value indicative of whether a defect was found in the respective column.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of column defects comprises a column repair vector comprising a series of bits stored in memory elements, each bit in the series corresponding to a respective column in the memory-under-test.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein the record of column defects is updated by logically ORing a failure map from a word-under-test with at least a portion of the current record of column defects.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein the updating is performed if a current spare resource is a spare column and if the one or more defects from a current word being tested are not found in a current record of column defects or are not covered by a previously allocated spare row resource.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein the memory-under-test is a multiplexed memory, and wherein the record of column defects comprises one or more word-oriented records each associated with a different word position in the multiplexed memory.
9. The method of claim 8, wherein each word-oriented record comprises a set of bits, a first portion of the set corresponding to respective columns in the memory-under-test and a second portion of the set corresponding to word-position information.
10. The method of claim 9, wherein the number of bits comprising the one or more word-oriented records is less than the number of bits in a row of the memory-under-test.
11. A method of testing an embedded memory of an integrated circuit, wherein the method of claim 1 is performed simultaneously for multiple different repair strategies.
12. A method of testing an embedded memory of an integrated circuit, wherein the method of claim 1 is performed sequentially for multiple different repair strategies.
13. An integrated circuit comprising a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 1.
14. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system to at least partially design a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 1.
15. A computer-readable medium storing a design database that includes design information for a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 1.
advancing the current spare resource to a next spare resource according to a selected repair strategy.
17. The method of claim 16, wherein the act of evaluating further comprises storing corresponding row information if the current spare resource is a spare row.
18. The method of claim 16, wherein the record of column defects comprises a set of bits, each bit of the set corresponding to a respective column of the memory and having a value indicative of whether a defect is found in the respective column during a memory test of multiple words in the memory.
19. The method of claim 16, wherein the record of column defects is a column repair vector comprising a set of memory elements, each memory element in the set corresponding to a respective column in the memory.
20. The method of claim 16, wherein the memory has a multiplexed architecture and the record of column defects comprises multiple word-oriented column repair vectors, wherein each word-oriented column repair vector comprises a set of memory elements, a first portion of the set corresponding to respective columns in the memory-under-test and a second portion of the set corresponding to word-position information.
21. The method of claim 16, wherein the record of column defects is updated by logically ORing the failure map with at least a portion of the record of column defects.
22. The method of claim 16, further comprising, determining whether the selected repair strategy is successful by evaluating the record of column defects as the record of column defects is updated.
23. The method of claim 16 performed simultaneously using multiple different repair strategies.
24. The method of claim 23, wherein the multiple repair strategies are analyzed using (C(m+n, m)−1) or fewer built-in self-repair analyzers.
25. The method of claim 16 performed sequentially using multiple different repair strategies.
26. An integrated circuit comprising a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 16.
27. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system to at least partially design a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 16.
28. A computer-readable medium storing a design database that includes design information for a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 16.
eliminating from subsequent tests of the memory one or more other repair strategies that begin with the failing portion of the first repair strategy.
updating a record of column defects at substantially the operating speed of the memory-under-test, the record of column defects indicating the defects not assigned to be repaired by spare rows.
31. The method of claim 29, wherein the determining is performed as the spare resources of the first repair strategy are being applied to the defects of the memory.
32. The method of claim 29, wherein the determining is performed by evaluating a record of column defects.
33. The method of claim 32, wherein the record of column defects is a column repair vector comprising a set of bits, each bit in the set corresponding to a respective column in the memory.
34. The method of claim 29, wherein the memory has a multiplexed architecture and the record of column defects comprises multiple word-oriented column repair vectors, wherein each word-oriented column repair vector comprises a set of bits, a first portion of the set corresponding to respective columns in the memory-under-test and a second portion of the set corresponding to word-position information.
35. An integrated circuit comprising a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 29.
36. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system to at least partially design a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 29.
37. A computer-readable medium storing a design database that includes design information for a built-in self-repair analyzer configured to perform the method of claim 29.
the BISRA comprising a set of at least n memory elements that form a record of column defects, at least some of the n memory elements corresponding to respective columns of the words tested and having values indicative of whether a defect is found in the corresponding column.
39. The integrated circuit of claim 38, wherein m is equal to n.
40. The integrated circuit of claim 38, wherein the set of memory elements is logically updated with a respective failure map when a respective word tested contains a defect to be repaired with a spare column.
41. The circuit of claim 38, wherein the one or more repair strategies comprise a first repair strategy and a second repair strategy, and wherein the BISRA is configured to restart the BIST circuit if the first repair strategy fails and to evaluate the second repair strategy.
42. The circuit of claim 38, wherein the one or more repair strategies are a plurality of repair strategies, and the BISRA is configured to evaluate the plurality of repair strategies sequentially.
43. The circuit of claim 42, wherein the plurality of repair strategies are generated by hardware in the BISRA.
44. The circuit of claim 43, wherein the hardware in the BISRA generating the plurality of repair strategies comprises a linear feedback shift register (LFSR).
45. The circuit of claim 38, wherein the BISRA is a first BISRA of multiple BISRAs and the one or more repair strategies are a plurality of repair strategies, the multiple BISRAs being configured to evaluate the plurality of repair strategies simultaneously.
46. The circuit of claim 45, further comprising a determination circuit configured to select an optimal repair strategy from successful repair strategies evaluated by the first BISRA and the additional BISRAs.
47. The integrated circuit of claim 38, wherein the one or more repair strategies are loaded from automatic test equipment (ATE).
48. The circuit of claim 38, wherein the memory array has a linear architecture.
49. The circuit of claim 38, wherein the memory array has a multiplexed architecture and the set of memory elements comprises multiple word-oriented column repair vectors, each word-oriented column repair vector comprising a first subset of memory elements associated with word-address information and a second subset of memory elements associated with the respective columns of the words tested and having values indicative of whether defects are found in the corresponding columns.
50. The circuit of claim 49, wherein n is less than m.
51. The circuit of claim 49, wherein n is less than m/2.
52. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system to at least partially design the integrated circuit of claim 38.
53. A computer-readable medium storing a design database that includes design information for the integrated circuit of claim 38.
means for updating a record of column defects when a current spare resource being evaluated is a spare column and when one or more defects detected are not recorded in the record of column defects, the record of column defects being updated at substantially the operating speed of the memory.
55. The integrated circuit of claim 54, further comprising means for evaluating the record of column defects after the testing is performed to determine whether the memory is repairable using the repair strategy.
56. A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions for causing a computer system to at least partially design the integrated circuit of claim 54.
57. A computer-readable medium storing a design database that includes design information for the integrated circuit of claim 54. | 2019-04-19T01:58:17Z | https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040210803A1/en | Porn | Arts | 0.103068 |
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Tired of dealing with trampled grass in high-traffic areas in the yard, you decide to install a paver pathway in the landscape. Paver pathways add a touch of formality to your landscape design, but a winding path works well for those who wish to maintain a hint of fluidity and a more natural look. Straight-edged pavers must be cut to achieve the curve of a winding path. Some landscape designers prefer to cut each paver individually before installation, but this requires precision measuring and cutting for a proper fit. The curve is much easier to achieve after installing the pavers.
Lay the pavers so the outside edges of the path extend outside the desired area for the path when the curves are cut. This is necessary because you cut the winding path from a path with straight edges.
Form the outline for the winding path with a garden hose laid on top of the pavers. Garden hoses bend easily to form curves but provide more stability than string.
Trace the winding pattern with chalk while using the garden hose as a guide. Hold the hose steady so it doesn't shift as you run the chalk along the hose.
Wear protective gear, including safety goggles and a dust mask to protect you from flying debris and dust as you cut the pavers.
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Brush away the paver dust with a broom and inspect your work. Remove the cut pieces of paver from the pathway so any pavers that were not completely cut are easy to notice.
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tripod | Narcissistic Personality Disorder cannot be cured, but certain antisocial and self-destructive or self-defeating behaviors can be modified using cognitive-behavioral therapies.
Narcissists attend therapy only as a last resort and only in order to restore their access to narcissistic supply.
Narcissists hold the therapist in contempt and seek to establish their grandiose superiority and entitlement by playing mind games and by undermining the therapeutic alliance.
Is the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) more amenable to Cognitive-Behavioural therapies or to Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic ones?
Narcissism pervades the entire personality. It is all-pervasive. Being a narcissist is akin to being an alcoholic but much more so. Alcoholism is an impulsive behaviour. Narcissists exhibit dozens of similarly reckless behaviours, some of them uncontrollable (like their rage, the outcome of their wounded grandiosity). Narcissism is not a vocation. Narcissism resembles depression or other disorders and cannot be changed at will.
Adult pathological narcissism is no more "curable" than the entirety of one's personality is disposable. The patient is a narcissist. Narcissism is more akin to the colour of one's skin rather than to one's choice of subjects at the university.
The CBTs postulate that insight – even if merely verbal and intellectual – is sufficient to induce an emotional outcome. Verbal cues, analyses of mantras we keep repeating ("I am ugly", "I am afraid no one would like to be with me"), the itemizing of our inner dialogues and narratives and of our repeated behavioural patterns (learned behaviours) coupled with positive (and, rarely, negative) reinforcements – are used to induce a cumulative emotional effect tantamount to healing.
Psychodynamic theories reject the notion that cognition can influence emotion. Healing requires access to and the study of much deeper strata by both patient and therapist. The very exposure of these strata to the therapeutic is considered sufficient to induce a dynamic of healing.
The therapist's role is either to interpret the material revealed to the patient (psychoanalysis) by allowing the patient to transfer past experience and superimpose it on the therapist – or to provide a safe emotional and holding environment conducive to changes in the patient.
The sad fact is that no known therapy is effective with narcissism itself, though a few therapies are reasonably successful as far as coping with some of its effects goes (behavioural modification).
This is not psychoanalysis. It is an intensive psychotherapy based on psychoanalytic theory without the (very important) element of free association. This is not to say that free association is not used in these therapies – only that it is not a pillar of the technique. Dynamic therapies are usually applied to patients not considered "suitable" for psychoanalysis (such as those suffering from personality disorders, except the Avoidant PD).
Typically, different modes of interpretation are employed and other techniques borrowed from other treatments modalities. But the material interpreted is not necessarily the result of free association or dreams and the psychotherapist is a lot more active than the psychoanalyst.
Psychodynamic therapies are open-ended. At the commencement of the therapy, the therapist (analyst) makes an agreement (a "pact" or "alliance") with the analysand (patient or client). The pact says that the patient undertakes to explore his problems for as long as may be needed. This is supposed to make the therapeutic environment much more relaxed because the patient knows that the analyst is at his/her disposal no matter how many meetings would be required in order to broach painful subject matter.
Sometimes, these therapies are divided to expressive versus supportive, but I regard this division as misleading.
Expressive means uncovering (making conscious) the patient's conflicts and studying his or her defences and resistances. The analyst interprets the conflict in view of the new knowledge gained and guides the therapy towards a resolution of the conflict. The conflict, in other words, is "interpreted away" through insight and the change in the patient motivated by his/her insights.
The supportive therapies seek to strengthen the Ego. Their premise is that a strong Ego can cope better (and later on, alone) with external (situational) or internal (instinctual, related to drives) pressures. Supportive therapies seek to increase the patient's ability to REPRESS conflicts (rather than bring them to the surface of consciousness).
When the patient's painful conflicts are suppressed, the attendant dysphorias and symptoms vanish or are ameliorated. This is somewhat reminiscent of behaviourism (the main aim is to change behaviour and to relieve symptoms). It usually makes no use of insight or interpretation (though there are exceptions).
Narcissists are notoriously unsuitable for collaborative efforts of any kind, let alone group therapy. They immediately size up others as potential Sources of Narcissistic Supply – or as potential competitors. They idealise the first (suppliers) and devalue the latter (competitors). This, obviously, is not very conducive to group therapy.
Moreover, the dynamic of the group is bound to reflect the interactions of its members. Narcissists are individualists. They regard coalitions with disdain and contempt. The need to resort to team work, to adhere to group rules, to succumb to a moderator, and to honour and respect the other members as equals is perceived by them to be humiliating and degrading (a contemptible weakness). Thus, a group containing one or more narcissists is likely to fluctuate between short-term, very small size, coalitions (based on "superiority" and contempt) and narcissistic outbreaks (acting outs) of rage and coercion.
Developed by Sam Vaknin, Cold Therapy is based on two premises: (1) That narcissistic disorders are actually forms of complex post-traumatic conditions; and (2) That narcissists are the outcomes of arrested development and attachment dysfunctions. Consequently, Cold Therapy borrows techniques from child psychology and from treatment modalities used to deal with PTSD.
Cold Therapy consists of the re-traumatization of the narcissistic client in a hostile, non-holding environment which resembles the ambience of the original trauma. The adult patient successfully tackles this second round of hurt and thus resolves early childhood conflicts and achieves closure rendering his now maladaptive narcissistic defenses redundant, unnecessary, and obsolete.
Cold Therapy makes use of proprietary techniques such as erasure (suppressing the client’s speech and free expression and gaining clinical information and insights from his reactions to being so stifled). Other techniques include: grandiosity reframing, guided imagery, negative iteration, other-scoring, happiness map, mirroring, escalation, role play, assimilative confabulation, hypervigilant referencing, and re-parenting. It is proving to be an effective treatment for major depressive episodes (see this article about the link between pathological narcissism and depression and this article about depression and regulatory narcissistic supply in narcissism).
Adult narcissists can rarely be "cured", though some scholars think otherwise. Still, the earlier the therapeutic intervention, the better the prognosis. A correct diagnosis and a proper mix of treatment modalities in early adolescence guarantees success without relapse in anywhere between one third and one half the cases. Additionally, ageing moderates or even vanquishes some antisocial behaviours.
"Most narcissists strongly resist psychotherapy. For those who choose to remain in therapy, there are several pitfalls that are difficult to avoid ... Interpretation and even general assessment are often difficult to accomplish..."
"... (P)eople cannot change their natures, but can only change their situations. There has been some progress in finding ways of effecting small changes in disorders of personality, but management still consists largely of helping the person to find a way of life that conflicts less with his character ... Whatever treatment is used, aims should be modest and considerable time should be allowed to achieve them."
"(People with personality disorders) ... cause resentment and possibly even alienation and burnout in the healthcare professionals who treat them ... (p. 318) Long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis have been attempted with (narcissists), although their use has been controversial."
The reason narcissism is under-reported and healing over-stated is that therapists are being fooled by smart narcissists. Most narcissists are expert manipulators and consummate actors and they learn how to deceive their therapists.
There are gradations and shades of narcissism. The differences between two narcissists can be great. The existence of grandiosity and empathy or lack thereof are not minor variations. They are serious predictors of future psychodynamics. The prognosis is much better if they do exist.
There are cases of spontaneous healing, Acquired Situational Narcissism, and of "short-term NPD" [see Gunderson's and Ronningstam work, 1996].
The prognosis for a classical narcissist (grandiosity, lack of empathy and all) is decidedly not good as far as long-term, lasting, and complete healing. Moreover, narcissists are intensely disliked by therapists.
Side effects, co-morbid disorders (such as Obsessive-Compulsive behaviors) and some aspects of NPD (the dysphorias, the persecutory delusions, the sense of entitlement, the pathological lying) can be modified (using talk therapy and, depending on the problem, medication). These are not long-term or complete solutions – but some of them do have long-term effects.
The DSM is a billing and administration oriented diagnostic tool. It is intended to "tidy" up the psychiatrist's desk. The Axis II Personality Disorders are ill demarcated. The differential diagnoses are vaguely defined. There are some cultural biases and judgements [see the diagnostic criteria of the Schizotypal and Antisocial PDs]. The result is sizeable confusion and multiple diagnoses ("co-morbidity"). NPD was introduced to the DSM in 1980 [DSM-III]. There isn't enough research to substantiate any view or hypothesis about NPD. Future DSM editions may abolish it altogether within the framework of a cluster or a single "personality disorder" category. When we ask: "Can NPD be healed?" we need to realise that we don't know for sure what is NPD and what constitutes long-term healing in the case of an NPD. There are those who seriously claim that NPD is a cultural disease (culture-bound) with a societal determinant.
In therapy, the general idea is to create the conditions for the True Self to resume its growth: safety, predictability, justice, love and acceptance - a mirroring, re-parenting, and holding environment. Therapy is supposed to provide these conditions of nurturance and guidance (through transference, cognitive re-labelling or other methods). The narcissist must learn that his past experiences are not laws of nature, that not all adults are abusive, that relationships can be nurturing and supportive.
Most therapists try to co-opt the narcissist's inflated ego (False Self) and defences. They compliment the narcissist, challenging him to prove his omnipotence by overcoming his disorder. They appeal to his quest for perfection, brilliance, and eternal love - and his paranoid tendencies - in an attempt to get rid of counterproductive, self-defeating, and dysfunctional behaviour patterns.
By stroking the narcissist's grandiosity, they hope to modify or counter cognitive deficits, thinking errors, and the narcissist's victim-stance. They contract with the narcissist to alter his conduct. Some even go to the extent of medicalizing the disorder, attributing it to a hereditary or biochemical origin and thus "absolving" the narcissist from his responsibility and freeing his mental resources to concentrate on the therapy.
Confronting the narcissist head on and engaging in power politics ("I am cleverer", "My will should prevail", and so on) is decidedly unhelpful and could lead to rage attacks and a deepening of the narcissist's persecutory delusions, bred by his humiliation in the therapeutic setting.
Successes have been reported by applying 12-step techniques (as modified for patients suffering from the Antisocial Personality Disorder), and with treatment modalities as diverse as NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming), Schema Therapy, and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization).
But, whatever the type of talk therapy, the narcissist devalues the therapist. His internal dialogue is: "I know best, I know it all, the therapist is less intelligent than I, I can't afford the top level therapists who are the only ones qualified to treat me (as my equals, needless to say), I am actually a therapist myself…"
A litany of self-delusion and fantastic grandiosity (really, defences and resistances) ensues: "He (my therapist) should be my colleague, in certain respects it is he who should accept my professional authority, why won't he be my friend, after all I can use the lingo (psycho-babble) even better than he does? It's us (him and me) against a hostile and ignorant world (shared psychosis, folie a deux)…"
Then there is this internal dialog: "Just who does he think he is, asking me all these questions? What are his professional credentials? I am a success and he is a nobody therapist in a dingy office, he is trying to negate my uniqueness, he is an authority figure, I hate him, I will show him, I will humiliate him, prove him ignorant, have his licence revoked (transference). Actually, he is pitiable, a zero, a failure…"
And this is only in the first three sessions of the therapy. This abusive internal exchange becomes more vituperative and pejorative as therapy progresses.
“Mirror transference is the remobilization of the grandiose self. Its expression is: "I am perfect and I need you in order to confirm it." When it is very archaic, mirror transference can easily result in feelings of boredom, tension, and impatience in the analyst, whose otherness is not recognized. Counter-transference is thus a sign of it.
Narcissists generally are averse to being medicated. Resorting to medicines is an implied admission that something is wrong. Narcissists are control freaks and hate to be "under the influence" of "mind altering" drugs prescribed to them by others.
Additionally, many of them believe that medication is the "great equaliser" – it will make them lose their uniqueness, superiority and so on. That is unless they can convincingly present the act of taking their medicines as "heroism", a daring enterprise of self-exploration, part of a breakthrough clinical trial, and so on.
They often claim that the medicine affects them differently than it does other people, or that they have discovered a new, exciting way of using it, or that they are part of someone's (usually themselves) learning curve ("part of a new approach to dosage", "part of a new cocktail which holds great promise"). Narcissists must dramatise their lives to feel worthy and special. Aut nihil aut unique – either be special or don't be at all. Narcissists are drama queens.
Very much like in the physical world, change is brought about only through incredible powers of torsion and breakage. Only when the narcissist's elasticity gives way, only when he is wounded by his own intransigence – only then is there hope.
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wordpress | My friend Marlene is a “foodie” and luckily being friends with her since University set me on the way to enjoy good food and wine – cooking at home for friends or eating out. So when I was looking for some recommendations for restaurants in Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City, I asked Marlene.
La Botega – located in Byward Market. It’s a grocery store in the front and a deli/café in the back.
Les Pyrenees – very close to Holder; it’s always busy – good place to try for breakfast or lunch. It’s a chacouterie.
I hope I get the opportunity to try out some of these restaurants. In the meantime, let me know if you go and what you think. I’m always looking for suggestions too. These days, I’m more into budget restaurants, so keep that in mind. | 2019-04-20T19:18:37Z | https://cbarzo.wordpress.com/2013/08/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.487801 |
typepad | Law school teaches you to think like an attorney. They don't tell you that this is only half of the pie. Lawyers don't learn about effective communication skills, business skills, how to establish rapport with clients and staff, or how to gain respect and agreement from juries. The attorneys who are successful are those who either already were blessed with these skills or the ones who learned them through great time and expense. Attorney and Life Coach Sonya Gallagher discusses The Success Round Table for Lawyers program she is offering through her company Time For Life on today's program.
ANNOUNCER: Welcome to GAL Radio brought to you by the Greatest American Lawyer Blog changing the way law is practiced through technology, innovation and creativity. Turning the business of law on its head and shaking things up to the betterment of clients, lawyers, law firms, and society. Now here is your host, Damien Allen.
DAMIEN: Good afternoon and welcome to GAL Radio. My name is Damien Allen, and joining me today on the phone is Sonia Gallagher, J.D. She is a life coach and she is the owner/proprietor of Time For Life LLC, Good afternoon, Sonia and welcome to the program.
SONIA: Hi, Damien. I’m happy to be here.
DAMIEN: It’s a pleasure to have you with us today. Today we are discussing the Success Round Table for Lawyers. Sonia how did you get started in Time for Life, L.L.C?
SONIA: Well it’s been quite a ride. I can tell you I practiced law for the past 6 years, and I actually owned my own law firm for the past two and during that time I always felt like I was missing something and that I should be working and helping people in a different manner. And during that time I was owning my own firm, I networked about 3 times a week, and it was basically through word of mouth and specific alliances that I got my clients, and just being out there and networking with so many attorneys on a constant basis I noted that there are specific issues we have to deal with on a regular basis and don’t really have the skills to help us. And those issues are client’s business development and client attraction and retention.
The launch of the new iPad has been surrounded with a lot of hype and a lot of hope for a "Go To" tool that will revolutionize the way we look at tablet style computers, information delivery, and peripheral devices. Now the the iPad has had a few months on the market, Attorney Joshua Barrett of Black Helterline LLP discusses how the iPad works for him in the real world and where he thinks the future lies for for the iPad and its use in the legal field.
DAMIEN: Good afternoon and welcome to GAL Radio. My name is Damien Allen, and joining me today on the phone is Josh Barrett of Black Helterline LLP, in Portland, Oregon. Welcome to the program.
DAMIEN: Today we are talking about the impact of IPads, lawyers, law firms and the legal profession. You recently wrote on Tabletlegal.com that the IPads seemed to work well for you for a lunch meeting. How are you using the IPad, Josh? And what do you see is the great boon for this particular advice?
JOSH: I think the great boon for me, anyway, and I think for a lot of lawyers is that it gives lawyers additional choices about how to deliver legal services. I mean it doesn’t need to be behind a desk and behind a computer all day. I know my clients need me in different places and at different times, and the IPad gives me choices about how and when I can deliver my services and in a way that works well for my clients.
DAMIEN: What type of things are you doing with the IPad in your profession?
JOSH: The choices, you know, it’s interesting. It’s not a desk top or a laptop replacement and that’s not a failing. I use it a lot for managing all those little slices of time and all those little projects that come up in a business attorney’s practice. While I like those days where you can sit down and crank out 8, 10, 12 hours on a big project, a lot of the practice is little, tiny, small answering questions, cranking out a quick agreement, responding to a letter, or a voicemail, and the IPad allows me to do that very easily and take advantage of those little slices of time throughout my day whether I’m off picking up the kids or between client meetings to get those little things done to move my clients’ businesses and their projects forward.
In a New York Times article posted yesterday by Catherine Rampell entitled Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That, Rampell noted that in the last two years, at least 10 law schools have adjusted their grading systems to make them more lenient.
In fact, within the next month Rampell reports that Loyola Law School Los Angeles will adjust every law student’s grade recorded within the last few years by adding on an extra 0.333 to every grade. This change is not because all of the Loyola Law School students were working harder, rather the law school is retroactively inflating its grades to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.
I was in my partner Brian’s office the other day conducting a GoToMeeting and mind map session with an important client. I was chewing some “fresh breath” gum and was ready to spit it out. Looking around the office, I realized there wasn’t even a waste paper basket, let alone a recycling bin for paper.
You know you’re paperless when you don’t even need a trash can!
Socialized Medicine…What If There Was Socialized Legal Services?
I was sitting at my kitchen table and all of a sudden it hit me. I am generally in favor of treating health care as a right, rather than a privilege for the wealthy. I do believe that it’s a basic human right in a country like ours.
But then I had an interesting thought. What if legal services were socialized and every American had a right to a competent lawyer at no or little cost. We provide a constitutional right to choice of counsel and a right to a jury trial. But the practical reality is that most people can’t afford to get anywhere near the courthouse, let alone assert their rights in any meaningful way.
Dennis Kennedy: You know I see the iPad and think it is potentially a transition device, that is going to say ‘we are moving to this mobile platform, that’s always on, access from anywhere, internet will always be available, and we are also starting to look and say how do we use computers, what are we doing and I think that’s , the iPad comes in and says this is a way to get to that mobile platform..So it is a little bit bigger than a phone, not as big as a laptop and that could be the right size and that is the big question for Apple and for everybody else about how this is going to work. Is there room for that device, that size, that additional device, that does what it does, does that fit into the technology we want to have with us all the time." | 2019-04-23T18:08:38Z | https://greatestamericanlawyer.typepad.com/greatest_american_lawyer/2010/06/index.html | Porn | Computers | 0.876767 |
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tripod | In answer to several queries, shingles are a very painful skin condition that is caused by a re-emergence of the chicken pox virus. It causes a rash that swells and reddens the skin, making it sensitive to any touch or pressure. It is not pleasant at all, but will usually subside with time & treatment.
Yes, there are several natural treatments for shingles, here's one of the better ones: Drink 2-3 cups a day of Lemon Balm tea (fresh, not packaged) add, if possible, with 5 drops tincture of St. John's Wort (Hypericum Perforatum) & 10 drops tincture of Baikal skullcap (Scutellaria Baicalensis) to each cup.
Topical treatment: Rather than mess about making a poultice, if you don't have a prescription ointment, I recommend a pure vitamin E oil, and a lidocane ointment for pain.
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wikipedia | Pong — ერთ-ერთი ყველაზე ადრეული არკადული და სპორტული ვიდეო თამაში, კომპანია Atari-ს მიერ შემუშავებული რიგით პირველი თამაში, რომლის დიზაინერია ალან ალკორნი. Pong არის მაგიდის ჩოგბურთის თამაში მარტივი ორგანზომილებიანი გრაფიკით. მიუხედავად იმისა, რომ ადრეულ წლებში უკვე არსებობდა არკადული სისტემები, მაგალითად, როგორიც არის Computer Space, ის იყო პირველი, რომელმაც მიაღწია საყოველთაო პოპულარობას.
პონგი არის მაგიდის ჩოგბურთის მარტივი სიმულატორი. მცირე ზომის პინ-პონგის კვადრატული ბურთი მოძრაობს ეკრანის ხაზების ტრაექტორიით. მოთამაშის მიზანი არის ჯამში 11 ქულის მოგროვება. ქულა იმატებს მაშინ, როდესაც მოწინააღმდეგე ვერ ახერხებს ბურთის უკან დაბრუნებას. მისი თამაში შეიძლება როგორც ერთმოთამაშიან რეჟიმში, ასევე მრავალმოთამაშიან რეჟიმშიც. როგორც წესი, გეიმპლეის სამართავად პონგისა და ამის მაგვარ სისტემებზე გამოიყენება ეგრეთწოდებული Paddle — კონტროლერი, რომელიც ბრუნავს თავისი ღერძის გარშემო.
პონგმა სწრაფად მოიპოვა პოპულარობა და იქცა პირველ კომერციულად წარმატებულ არკადული ვიდეო თამაშების სისტემად, რომელმაც Magnavox Odyssey-თან ერთად საფუძველი ჩაუყარა ვიდეო თამაშების ინდუსტრიას. უახლოეს ხანში ზოგიერთმა კომპანიამ დაიწყო პონგის გეიმპლეიზე დაფუძნებული თამაშების შემუშავება და შედეგად აწარმოეს ახალი ტიპის თამაშები. ამის საპასუხოდ, ატარიმ მოუწოდა თავის თანამშრომლებს შეექმნათ უფრო ინოვაციური პროდუქტები. კომპანიამ გამოუშვა სიკველები, რომლებიც აგრძელებდნენ ორიგინალი თამაშის ტრადიციებს, თუმცა დაემატათ ახალი მახასიათებლები.
1975 წელს, ახალი წლის დამდეგს ატარიმ გამოსცა პონგის სახლის ვერსია (Home Pong, Pong IV და სხვა). ამ ნაბიჯმა კომპანიას კომერციულად დიდი წარმატება მოუტანა, რასაც მოჰყვა მრავალი ასლის გამოშვება. თამაშის სახეშცვილილი ვერსია გამოვიდა სხვადასხვა პორტატიულ და სახლის ვიდეო თამაშების კონსოლებზე. პონგს მოჰყვა გამოხმაურება მასობრივ კულტურაში და იქცა სხვადასხვა ვიდეო თამაშებისა და კულტურული გამოფენების ნაწილად.
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Pong-story.com ყოვლის მომცველი საიტი პონგის შესახებ.
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wordpress | The Simply Charlotte Mason Blog is running a series of posts comparing the differences between the Charlotte Mason approach to homeschooling and other popular approaches. You might enjoy taking a look.
Also, since we are on the subject of Charlotte Mason today, you might also enjoy this wonderful post entitled, 10 Great Authors in Children’s Literature by SimpleMom. I often remind moms that a book’s length or complexity does not indicate its worthiness as a living book. The example I often cite is Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon. This book is certainly a beautiful example of a short, simple, but living book. I was glad to see her on the list at the SimpleMom post.
We are looking at the Parents’ Review article entitled Othello and Goose. This is an easy to read tale of a cat, Othello, and the household that dotes over him, attributing human characteristics to him as they go about their lives together.
One night, after a satisfying Christmas dinner, Othello is inadvertedly let into the cellar without his owner’s knowledge. Eventually, the error is recognized, but not before Othello has taken the opportunity to decadently dine on the leftover goose.
Merry, the young owner, is horrified – afraid her mother, Mrs. Mirth, will want to get rid of Othello because of the incident’s revealing the cat’s true character. She had always supposed the cat was honest but now the truth, that he is deceptive, has come to light.
After explaining the situation to Mrs. Mirth the household maid asks gingerly if she should whip the cat. Mrs. Mirth resolutely says the cat should not be whipped, that it would only be cruel to do so. For one, the time of the incident has long passed and the cat has completely forgotten. He would see no connection between the punishment and any of his doings. Secondly, he only acted in accordance with his nature. It was in good faith — he simply wanted some goose, so he went to get some.
Yet we some of us, whip our children for mistakes and errors which arise from their inexperience, and disappoint and grieve them by our displeasure when they have acted in good faith as far as their imperfect view of things would allow.
I would like to share with you a painful story from my own life. It still makes me feel terrible now and this was nearly 8 years ago. I had three children at the time. My youngest, a baby of a few months, was lying on the floor and my son, age 3 1/2, and I were looking at her. Suddenly, my son pulled her hair. I was shocked! “No!,” I shrieked. “We don’t pull a baby’s hair!” Seconds later, he pulled it again. My mother bear instinct snapped and I slapped his hand. Not being someone who generally used physical discipline, my son was shocked and heartbroken and started to sob, “I was just trying to help her get the bit out of her hair, Mommy!” Looking down, I saw the little bit of fluff in my baby’s hair and I started to cry, too. In his own toddler way, he was trying to do something nice for her. He didn’t see any disobedience because he was not pulling her hair — he would never pull her hair — he was helping her. Of course, I gave him a big hug and asked his forgiveness.
That time has always served as a reminder to me to make sure that before I discipline in any way, I have to the best of my ability all the information, including the intentions of the children involved.
Also might we not take into more reasonable and pitiful consideration the strong pressure of temptation on the weak little soul of child or cat, even when it has a half feeling that it is wrong doing?
This reminds me of one of my very favourite quotes in the whole Bible. It is such a favourite of mine that I have it copied in the very front of my Bible, so it is there to remind me each time I open it up.
Sothe LORD pities those who fear Him.
Isn’t that a picture of exactly what the author of the article is suggesting above? It isn’t that we overlook wrong-doing. Rather, it is that when we place ourselves in an empathetic position, as fellow people who know well the temptation that exists, particularly when young and immature, we leave ourselves much less likely to be rash or harsh. As well, we are much more likely to look at each situation not as an adversarial confrontation, but as an opportunity to teach, from one who is wiser and more experienced to someone who is inexperienced and lacks wisdom.
This week, we will look together at the Parents’ Review article, Othello and Goose. I think you will enjoy this article. I chose it because I think that it will be helpful for mothers who would like to begin to cultivate (or re-cultivate!) the habit of calmness in their daily life with their children. This story could also be read to children, which seems to be its original intention. If I were to read it to my children, I would probably leave off the ending comments, which are not at all inappropriate, but appear to be meant for parents. We’ll see you on Thursday for comments about the article. | 2019-04-25T00:31:41Z | https://thereallifehome.wordpress.com/category/charlotte-mason/ | Porn | Kids | 0.928061 |
wordpress | As part of my research for the novel, I plan to write at least a dozen stories to help me ‘see’ the locations and the characters. Probably I shan’t include much of the material in the final novel, but it will have served its purpose, and, I hope, entertained a few readers.
Makshirani ran to her mother, Joti, and cuddled her. Joti smiled. For all her twelve years, Makshirani was still childish. Perhaps it was because her little brother, Sahadar, was only just weaned at two years old.
Makshirani looked up at Joti.
“Yes, Mami. Lord Vishnu killed the demon Holika in the fire, and saved Prahlada. Banerjee Sahib told us we had to pray to Lord Vishnu to kill the evil part of us so that we could be virtuous people.” She said it with a sing-song tone, as though she had learned it by rote.
“I’m not friends with Shama anymore.” Nevertheless, Makshirani held out her hands for the jug. Joti raised her eyebrows.
The afternoon sun was warm. Insects buzzed in the bushes beside the path that led to the village. Rice stood high, green and gold, in the paddy field; it was nearly time for the harvest. Makshirani looked forward to that. There was no school during harvest; everybody had to help gather the crop so it wouldn’t spoil. It was hard work, but when the harvest was good everyone was cheerful, and some of the women would bake sweet treats for the workers to enjoy at the end of the day. Makshirani wandered off the path and gazed at the crop. There were plenty of grains on each stem, and they were good and fat. Provided the weather stayed fair the harvest should be bountiful. Prithvi had blessed them this year.
Makshirani suddenly remembered her errand, and went on more briskly. It wasn’t far to the house where Shama lived.
She put down the jug outside the little house, and called out. Shama’s mother came quickly.
“Namaste” said Makshirani, bowing. “Mami sent me to you with this.” She picked up the jug and handed it to the woman.
Behind her, Shama scowled, and drew her finger across her neck.
Makshirani smiled and scampered away.
The following evening the family walked down to the village where the bonfire had been built. It was little Sahadar’s first time at Holika Dahan and he clung tightly to Joti, frightened by the large crowd of people and the dark night. His eyes were wide and gleamed in the starlight.
Somebody began to beat a drum. The sound was muffled, distant. Sahadar’s face puckered. Makshirani stroked his cheek gently.
The drum came closer. Makshirani thought of Lord Vishnu and how he destroyed Holika. She thought of Shama.
‘Perhaps she didn’t mean to make trouble for me,’ she thought. Her heart beat in time with the rhythm of the drum. Sahadar grasped her finger, and she smiled at him.
Sahadar pulled her finger into his mouth. Makshirani gasped as he bit it; his teeth were small but sharp.
The people next to her turned and stared. Makshirani stuck the injured finger in her mouth. Sahadar rubbed his face against Joti’s breast; he was almost asleep.
And then the drummer was among them. People jostled each other to make a path for him as he walked through the throng, accompanied by an effigy of Holika with Prahlada on her lap.
Makshirani looked at Holika and quaked at her ferocious smile. She shrank away, pressing even closer to Joti.
The effigy was placed on the bonfire. There was a flare of light as a torch was lit.
The torch was thrust into the base of the bonfire. The kindling caught immediately, little flames igniting twigs, twigs setting fire to branches, until Holika was surrounded by fire. Makshirani’s face glowed with the heat.
As the effigy caught fire, there was a wailing sound from the effigy, as though it felt the flames. Makshirani jumped and almost ran away.
“Lord Vishnu, burn away my faults. Help me to do dharma.” She spoke out loud without realising.
Suddenly she knew what she had to do.
Pulling away from Joti’s hand, she pushed through the crowd, around the bonfire, until she found Shama and her family.
“I’m sorry I was horrid to you,” she said to Shama.
“I never meant you to get into trouble,” replied Shama.
The two girls looked at each other.
“Can I tell the other girls we’re best friends again?” asked Makshirani.
Shama stepped forward, embraced Makshirani and kissed her on the forehead.
“Alright. Best friends! And I’m coming with you tomorrow when you soak Banerjee Sahib!
Then she thought a minute, placed her hands together, said “Namaste,” and bowed.
“Namaste,” replied Shama, bowing in her turn.
For a few seconds they regarded each other seriously, then, with smiles of delight they ran to tell Joti that they were best friends again. | 2019-04-19T06:35:35Z | https://pennygadd51.wordpress.com/category/the-dove-on-the-pergola/ | Porn | Kids | 0.70352 |
typepad | Last month, I discussed the appellate brief filed by Rosetta Stone in its appeal from a trial court’s dismissal of its trademark lawsuit over Google’s practice of allowing advertisers to pay for ads directed to Google users who express an interest in trademarked terms. The redactions were not based on any objective determination of the need for secrecy, but instead on unilateral stamping of discovery materials as “confidential” coupled with the parties’ consent to allow such restriction son public access because neither had any interest in contesting even the flimsiest of the other side’s claims of need for secrecy. Public Citizen told the parties that, unless the brief were filed in unredacted form, it would seek leave to intervene to seek unsealing.
The parties agreed to seek unsealing; the Court of Appeals approved their joint motion; and Rosetta Stone posted its unredacted brief yesterday. I have posted the unredacted brief here, with lines around the portions that were formerly redacted.
Regrettably, Rosetta Stone took its sweet time filing its unredacted brief – although the task could not have required more than fifteen minutes’ work — with the result that those of us who contemplate filing amicus briefs in support of Google’s position have only a week to write our briefs in light of the real facts of the case. So part of our reason for seeking unsealing was unsuccessful, although thankfully the full brief will now be available so that all can fully understand Rosetta Stone's arguments and the eventual Fourth Circuit decision.
What is truly remarkable about the material in the brief is how little justification I can see for redaction. Yes, some of the facts may be embarrassing to one side or the other, but what was the legal justification for each redaction?
We may be in a position to demand an answer to those questions, at least indirectly, because Google, too, has redacted some of the factual materials in its brief, apparently based on the same district order allowing unilateral stamping of discovery materials. Although the redactions in Google's appellate brief are not nearly so extensive as the former redactions in Rosetta Stone's brief, Public Citizen has again asked the parties to allow this brief to be filed unredacted, and if this request is not granted, we intend to move for leave to intervene and to unseal. We also intend to seek the unsealing of the Joint Appendix, which included those parts of the record that each side believes are most pertinent to deciding the outcome of the appeal.
We will point to the formerly redacted portions of Rosetta Stone’s opening brief and ask whether there is any reason to believe that the redactions in Google’s brief and in the Joint Appendix have any more basis in law than the redactions that formerly appeared in Rosetta Stone’s brief. In requesting oral argument, Rosetta Stone told the Court of Appeals that the voluminous factual record is one of the reasons why an oral presentation is needed to ensure a proper resolution of the appeal (see the last page here). For the same reason, the public needs to be able to see the Joint Appendix in order to understand the parties’ arguments and the Fourth Circuit’s decision.
In the meantime, the courts of appeals need to develop better procedures to force the parties to think through their redaction decisions before briefs are filed. Only in that manner can third parties have a fair chance to influence the outcome of appeals that have broad public significance. | 2019-04-23T00:34:48Z | https://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2010/11/continuing-issues-of-redactions-of-the-judicial-records-in-the-rosetta-stone-trademark-appeal.html | Porn | Reference | 0.087971 |
wordpress | Once I used to think that our mistakes should make us laugh that we made those and thus the life has been unique with some interesting touches. Nowadays I see that each and every mistake that we make knowingly as well as unknowingly , gets encashed by someone else. That does not sound funny at all. The fun part has thus vanished. A cautious approach towards securing vanity has been awakened. Not only in me, but probably by a tangible amount in each one of us.
This entry was posted on December 25, 2015 by Anand Sehgal in Comtemplation, Contemporary, Prose and tagged Adhura Lafz, Contemporary. | 2019-04-18T16:23:27Z | https://sehgalsahabunplugged.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/unearthing-life-12/ | Porn | Reference | 0.261892 |
uni-kl | The role of superselection rules for the derivation of classical probability within quantum mechanics is investigated and examples of superselection rules induced by the environment are discussed.
Maeder, J. ; Rühl, W.
For the case of the single-O(N)-vector linear sigma models the critical behaviour following from any A_k singularity in the action is worked out in the double scaling limit N->infinity, f_r -> f_r^c, 2 <= r <= k. After an exact elimination of Gaussian degrees of freedom, the critical objects such as coupling constants, indices and susceptibility matrix are derived for all A_k and spacetime dimensions 0 <= D <= 4. There appear exceptional spacetime dimensions where the degree k of the singularity A_k is more strongly constrained than by the renormalizability requirement.
The RST model is augmented by the addition of a scalar field and a boundary term so that it is well-posed and local. Expressing the RST action in terms of the ADM formulation, the constraint structure can be analysed completely. It is shown that from the view point of local field theories, there exists a hidden dynamical field 1 in the RST model. Thanks to the presence of this hidden dynamical field, we can reconstruct the closed algebra of the constraints which guarantee the general invariance of the RST action. The resulting stress tensors TSigma Sigma are recovered to be true tensor quantities. Especially, the part of the stress tensors for the hidden dynamical field 1 gives the precise expression for tSigma . At the quantum level, the cancellation condition for the total central charge is reexamined. Finally, with the help of the hidden dynamical field 1, the fact that the semi-classical static soluti on of the RST model has two independent parameters (P,M), whereas for the classical CGHS model there is only one, can be explained.
Liang, J.-Q. ; Müller-Kirsten, H. J. W. ; Zhang, Zhenjiu ; Zhou, J.-G. ; Miao, Y.-G.
The constraint structure of the induced 2D-gravity with the Weyl and area-preserving diffeomorphism invariances is analysed in the ADM formulation. It is found that when the area-preserving diffeomorphism constraints are kept, the usual conformal gauge does not exist, whereas there is the possibility to choose the so-called "quasi-light-cone" gauge, in which besides the area-preserving diffeomorphism invariance, the reduced Lagrangian also possesses the SL(2,R) residual symmetry. This observation indicates that the claimed correspondence between the SL(2,R) residual symmetry and the area-preserving diffeomorphism invariance in both regularisation approaches does not hold. The string-like approach is then applied to quantise this model, but a fictitious non-zero central charge in the Virasoro algebra appears. When a set of gauge-independent SL(2,R) current-like fields is introduced instead of the string-like variables, a consistent quantum theory is obtained, which means that the area-preserving diffeomorphism invariance can be maintained at the quantum level.
Müller-Kirsten, H. J. W. ; Liang, Jiu-Qing ; Zhou, J.-G. ; Burzlaff, J.
Quantum tunneling between degenerate ground states through the central barrier of a potential is extended to excited states with the instanton method. This extension is achieved with the help of an LSZ reduction technique as in field theory and may be of importance in the study of macroscopic quantum phenomena in magnetic systems.
Starting from the coherent state representation of the evolution operator with the help of the path-integral, we derive a formula for the low-lying levels E = ffl0 Gamma 24ffl cos(s + ,)ss of a quantum spin system. The quenching of macroscopic quantum coherence is understood as the vanishing of cos(s + ,)ss in disagreement with the suppression of tunneling (i.e. 4ffl = 0) as claimed in the literature. A new configuration called the macroscopic Fermi-particle is suggested by the character of its wave function. The tunne- ling rate ( 24fflss ) does not vanish, not for integer spin s nor for a half-integer value of s, and is calculated explicitly (for the position dependent mass) up to the one-loop approximation. | 2019-04-19T10:39:32Z | https://kluedo.ub.uni-kl.de/solrsearch/index/search/searchtype/all/start/0/rows/10/institutefq/Fachbereich+Physik/yearfq/1996 | Porn | Science | 0.264 |
wordpress | Today at the MQ/Raum D in Vienna/Austria at around 7 pm a talk will be held on the artistic merits of violence in games. You heard me right – the artistic merits of violence.
Yesterday, the first get together for local game designers took place. We decided to kick off at the werkzeugH in Vienna. | 2019-04-19T14:41:04Z | https://berzerkraccoon.wordpress.com/tag/vienna/ | Porn | Games | 0.793466 |
newgrounds | I'm not dead, and I made a new cartoon!
Some backstory on it: I can't stand MInecraft cartoons. They all tell the same jokes, have the same punchlines, the same look, and it's all been stale since 2010. I don't really even play the game that much anymore, but thought I could do something interesting with the setting that wasn't hackneyed and boring. I hope you folks enjoy it!
I also uploaded it to Youtube, and if you aren't subscribed to me there, you really should be.
Finally, I have a new website! www.camtoons.com has artwork, animation, and pictures of models I paint. I don't know how often I'm going to put stuff out here, but look forward to more cartoons in the future!
I figure one cartoon a year's good enough, right? Anyway, if you're not already subscribed to me on Youtube, you should be. I've been posting Dawn of Awesome cartoons, the occasional little animation here and there, and stuff like demo reels. I also have a tumblr where I post the Warhammer models I paint, but I post cartoon stuff too.
Anyway, stay tuned and I'll be making more cartoons soon. I've got a bunch written, it's just a matter of which one I get to first!
New SRM toon in the works! And I'm not dead!
Hey everybody! I'm not actually dead. In fact, I'm actually working on a new SRM cartoon! So, to the three of you who still remember those, look forward to that in the future. I've made a good deal of progress on the actual animation, and it shouldn't take too long as it's only like 2 minutes long.
I've been really active on Tumblr lately, posting pictures of Warhammer stuff I've painted and progress on cartoons and junk. You can check it out here! Of course I've also been posting stuff to my Youtube channel, like new Dawn of Awesome cartoons. I'm already up to number 5! if you're not already subscribed, check out my Youtube channel!
Finally, I also did the artwork for a science fiction novel, Princess Ryan's Star Marines. You can buy it here on Amazon!
SRM Needs a Roommate is finally here!
Hope you folks enjoy the toon!
New SRM cartoon on the way!
In actual news, I'm working on my newest SRM cartoon for a studio class! I've attached the first page of the storyboard for kicks. I'm not going to be posting a week after week after week progress dealie like I did with my last cartoon, but you might see something of it before it's done in August. Good animation takes time, unfortunately.
Anyway, just letting the handful of people who still follow me here know that I'm not dead and that I'm actually working on something.
DUKE NUKEM FOREVER COMING OUT MAY 3RD!
I guess I better make that Duke Nukem cartoon I've been wanting to make.
Hey everybody, hope your holidays were as good as mine!
I'm glad my last cartoon, SRM Rock Guitar Band Hero did pretty well. It's been a long time since I made a cartoon here that did well, and even longer since I made one I can actually stand ([Prototype] I'm looking at you) Both classes I submitted it for gave me an A for the toon, so good news all around on that one.
I'm in the home stretch of college - split my last semester up into two so I don't get massacred by work next semester. Hopefully this means I can take things easier and get more time to make cartoons for fun, but no promises. I have a team production class this semester, so I'll have at least one cartoon out by April. It'll be my first time collaborating with other people since SRM: The Last Soda back in '09. As for SRM toons, I have some ideas stewing around with SRM and Duke Nukem Forever. Not doing the straight up parody thing, but think of it being as related as Fallout 3 was to Fallout 3: Mel's Addiction. I'm not really in the straight up parody racket anymore since that pretty much always boils to "X isn't like real life hurr hurr" and other boring jokes that Tim Buckley would be proud of.
New SRM toon! Rock Guitar Band Hero!
Hey everybody! It's finally finished! SRM Rock Guitar Band Hero is a go!
I started this cartoon back in September for my studio class. We had the last 14 weeks to work on and polish our animations, and I'm super duper proud of how it came out. Some people might say "It took you 14 weeks to make that!?" but forget that that's just work for one class, and I'm taking a full courseload. Either way, I'm really happy with how the cartoon came out and I hope you folks enjoy it. It's been a year since I released my last SRM toon, the SRM Star Wars Holiday Special which not many people saw, unsurprisingly. I've come a long way in frame by frame animation in the year since that toon, so it might be worth watching just to check it out.
While you're at it, you can subscribe to my channel on Youtube!
Anyway, now that this is done I've got new projects to look forward to. I have a short semi-educational piece I'm throwing together for a science class I might just post here for giggles, and some other more broad ideas to play with. One has to do with a duke that we've been waiting forever to see, but that's neither here nor there.
Anyway, enjoy the toon and tell me what you think of it!
SRM toon almost done, and guest work!
So after goading my buddy Dave, I finally got him to release Marshmallow Squad 6. I did a special 3D segment in the cartoon, some music consulting, and regularly haggled him to make this wonderful, terrible cartoon. It's been done for like 6 months, but I managed to get him to upload it tonight. Anyway, go watch it and forget that he made it, then accuse me of making a terrible cartoon. Wouldn't be the first time. | 2019-04-22T08:42:53Z | https://battosai810.newgrounds.com/news | Porn | News | 0.346234 |
yahoo | In the fall of 1998, at age 49, Ann Romney was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “I couldn’t go to the grocery store, I couldn’t cook dinner, I couldn’t get out of bed, I couldn’t take care of myself, hardly,” she tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
Ann Romney also remembers thinking that her life was over.
Romney recalls going through a period of depression after her diagnosis, sometimes thinking “I’m worthless; I’m a burden,” until she came to a point when she realized she had to stop grieving and start living.
After a long hiatus, the lifelong horse lover began riding horses again. She also joined her politician husband on the campaign trail as he ran for governor of Massachusetts and later president of the United States. She figured she couldn’t wallow in her sadness and pain any longer; she had to get up and move.
A few years after her diagnosis, Romney was referred to Howard Weiner, MD, a neurologist and the director of the multiple sclerosis program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. During her time as his patient, the two came up with the idea for the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases. The thriving research center is now co-led by Romney, Weiner, and Dennis Selkoe, MD. It is home to a team of 250 researchers who are working to find cures, prevention, and treatments for MS, Alzheimer’s disease, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, and brain tumors.
Reflecting on her own journey, she adds, “I’m now strong. I was weak. I found answers, and I fought my way through. Now I call it my gift,” she says of MS and her ability to assist in the push to find a cure. | 2019-04-25T08:31:30Z | https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/ann-romney-ms-know-like-no-hope-im-going-give-people-hope-120049416.html | Porn | Health | 0.641225 |
google | This part of the Python Bookshelf tutorial shows how the sample app stores its persistent data in Google Cloud SQL.
When deployed, your app uses the Cloud SQL Proxy that is built in to the App Engine environment to communicate with your Cloud SQL instance. However, to test your app locally, you must install and use a local copy of the Cloud SQL Proxy in your development environment.
To perform basic admin tasks on your Cloud SQL instance, you can use the MySQL client.
Note: You must authenticate gcloud to use the proxy to connect from your local machine.
Now use the Cloud SDK to run the following command where [YOUR_INSTANCE_NAME] represents the name of your Cloud SQL instance. Make a note of the value shown for connectionName for the next step.
This step establishes a connection from your local computer to your Cloud SQL instance for local testing purposes. Keep the Cloud SQL Proxy running the entire time you test your app locally.
Set the value of DATA_BACKEND to cloudsql.
Set the value of CLOUDSQL_USER, CLOUDSQL_PASSWORD, and CLOUDSQL_DATABASE to the values you used when configuring the Cloud SQL instance. For simplicity, you can use the root user and root password configured while creating your instance.
Set the value of CLOUDSQL_CONNECTION_NAME to the connection name for your Cloud SQL instance. This should be visible in the Google Cloud Platform Console in the details for your Cloud SQL instance. It should be in the format project:region:cloudsql-instance.
The application stores all persistent data in Cloud SQL.
When a user clicks Add Book, the crud.add view displays the form. After the form is filled in and the user clicks Save, the same add function handles the form's HTTP POST action and starts the process of sending the submitted data to the Cloud SQL database by passing it to the model.create function.
The bookshelf/model_cloudsql.py file contains the code that performs CRUD functions for data stored in the Cloud SQL database. The SQL is created using an Object Relational Mapper (ORM) called SQLAlchemy. Object relational mappers make it possible to interact with your data models as Python objects and have the equivalent SQL generated for you. Another popular ORM you might have worked with is the Django ORM.
To simplify integration with Flask, use the Flask extension Flask-SQLAlchemy.
For example, the create statement in the preceding code calls the create function in model_cloudsql.py, which then updates the data model by converting the attributes passed in as a Python dict into keyword arguments for the Book constructor. It then adds the model to the database session and commits the session. SQLAlchemy converts this to a SQL INSERT operation and creates a new book entry in the database.
When a user edits a book's information after it has been submitted, the update function in model_cloudsql.py is called, which queries for the existing entry by its id field. Then it iterates through the updated fields and edits them in the existing model. Finally, the function commits the session, and in this case, SQLAlchemy converts the edit to a model as a SQL UPDATE operation.
After users have added books, clicking the Books link navigates to the /books page, which lists all the books currently stored in the Cloud SQL database. The list function does the work of listing all the books by using data retrieved from the Cloud SQL database.
Here you can see how Python object methods can be converted to the appropriate SQL. In the preceding code, the limit method specifies the number of records to return from a database, which in turn adds a LIMIT clause to the SELECT SQL statement generated by the query. The offset method adds an OFFSET clause to the SELECT statement, which allows you to specify a starting point for handling pagination and allows additional pages to be requested based on the value of cursor. | 2019-04-23T16:53:26Z | https://cloud.google.com/python/getting-started/using-cloud-sql | Porn | Recreation | 0.158134 |
wikipedia | ↑ "Imdb.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/imdb.com। আহৰণ কৰা হৈছে: 2012-01-02.
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wordpress | Every time my girls go to mother’s day out I clean and straighten the house. Two seconds after I pick them up from school the house is destroyed. Upon walking through the front door there are 2 lunchboxes, 2 backpacks, 2 pairs of shoes, 2 sweaters, 2 lovies, 2 hairbows, and one pacifier immediately thrown on the floor.
One of my Willow House friends just posted this picture and I had to share! This is why I love working for WH…I am in love with all of the products. Ordering 2 of these right away! | 2019-04-25T14:57:47Z | https://mamagoosecuttinloose.wordpress.com/2011/11/19/organizing-idea/ | Porn | Home | 0.565623 |
wordpress | BAA will be @ Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, NH Tomorrow!
Brewing As Art hits the road and for the first time making and appearance outside of NYC!
“Passport 2013- A Craft Beer and Culinary Tour” is a collaboration with local chefs paired up with more than 20 craft breweries. Learn about beer styles and the cuisines they compliment!
Unfortunately, the event is SOLD OUT! But for those of our friends that are attending, come by and say HELLO and tip a pint with us!
This entry was posted on September 13, 2013 by Mark Zap. It was filed under Uncategorized . | 2019-04-24T06:53:53Z | https://brewingasart.wordpress.com/2013/09/13/baa-will-be-strawbery-banke-in-portsmouth-nh-tomorrow/ | Porn | Arts | 0.883328 |
wordpress | It was Saturday, the thirteenth day of September when I decided to stroll around the Miag-ao market to find something to be featured. Before that, I tried to check at the municipal hall and ask someone there.
As I was looking around the hall, I saw enlarged photos of wonderful natural spots here in Miag-ao. Also, there were pictures of the patadyong (plaid handwoven cloth used as a wrap skirt), kuron (pots), and many others. All of these are made by Miagaoanons.
Of all the attractive and eye-catching framed pictures, what caught my attention was the creative carving of a wooden ladle by an old man. This wooden ladle is locally called as luwag.
The luwag is made of paya (polished coconut shell) and kawayan (bamboo). The paya here constitutes the rounded portion of the ladle while the kawayan is what the elongated handle is made of. The length of a luwag ranges from 1-2 feet. The deep bowl is tightly attached to the bamboo handle by means of rivets or nylon. The traditional fastening material is uway, a kind of vine.
I interviewed Ernesto Empinado or Tay Erning, as I call him, a luwag-maker from Barangay Sapa, Miag-ao, on how he makes a luwag. He said that he only uses not the bolo knife nor the usual knife but the kutsilyo bilong-bilong (a Cebuano term for a particular kind of knife) in making the entire luwag.
The bamboo- made handle and the deep bowl are smoothened. Gina-lagis–that is process of smoothening the bamboo with the help of sharp objects such as knives. On the other hand, kiyas or kiskis is the process of smoothening the coconut shell or the paya. After this, the paya is attached to one end of the bamboo handle and prest0! A luwag is born.
Inspite of modernization, in the age of aluminum and teflon, the luwag is here to stay. Here in the Philippines, particularly in Miag-ao Iloilo, the wooden luwag is still patronized by many households. As what I observed in many houses, cooked rice are being karikad (scraped evenly) with the aid of luwag before being served on the table. Furthermore, during special occasions, country cooks prefer to use the luwag instead of metal ladles in cooking traditional fiesta fare like valenciana, lauya and KBL.
When preparing native rice cakes such as suman, kalamay-hati which require longer cooking time, the wooden luwag is also preferred. The main reason why wooden ladles are chosen over metal ladles is their characteristic of absorbing less heat when exposed to fire. Unlike metal spoons, the luwag can also be safely used without scratching the bottom of a pan. And still, another advantage of wooden ladles is the price. You can buy these native wooden ladles at twenty-five pesos to thirty pesos only. In an interview, Tay Erning told me that the pricing is dependent on the size of the ladle. The larger and longer it is, the more expensive is the price.
So you see….. Wooden ladles are playing their important roles in our busy kitchens everyday and Miagaoanons are there to continue the skills which we almost forgot. And that is the art of making the luwag.
of the University of the Philippines in the Visayas.
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wordpress | I love music. No, I can’t sing well. And no, I don’t listen to all the songs of all the bands that I say I listen to.
Yes, I listen to some Metal music, some Bollywood, and everything in between. I also think that most Pakistani music is soulful and/or vibrant and do not find it unpatriotic to do so. I was enchanted by the Pakistani Coke Studio, and don’t think the Indian version has matched up to it yet. At least, the first episode. I’m yet to see the second one.
I like to watch football. There are two clubs i support. But I can’t abuse other human beings just because they don’t support my favourite clubs. After all, football is part of sports, which is part of entertainment. For me at least. I don’t get why people should viciously fight over which team won, when there are more pressing issues like crime and poverty to be concerned about. But, thats their take, so be it.
I write and sometimes read poetry. But, I’m not fond of love-stories, not the Mills and Boons kind. I’m open to anything realistic, but that seems rare. But that does not mean I do not believe in love. I’ve read many books, yet Harry Potter is one of my favourites. Maybe because I grew up with it. I don’t know. Yet, I don’t know the birthday of a single character.
I like Economics, but I love Psychology. I don’t yet have a clear idea what exactly I’ll do in life, career wise. But, whatever I choose to be, I will try my best and perform as well as I can. Just because I’m good at my job will not mean that I’m going to be a bad mother or wife.
I can talk to a lot of people. I like to talk only to a few, therefore, that’s what I do. I don’t see the point in pretending. I have realized that it makes me feel an emptiness, a depression that nothing can fill. That does not mean that I absolutely hate, or think less of the people I don’t interact with much.
Even though I am a muslim, I believe I am more spiritual than religious. I do believe in God, but not in the rigidity associated with religion. Yet, I do observe some religious proceedings as I grew up with them, and they are a part of my cultural upbringing. Having said that, I’d still have to add that I absolutely believe in being rational and do not support honour killings.
To some people, these clarifications may seem absurd. But, I have come across folks who make such assumptions that have to be clarified to the dot. I have come to know quite early in life, that the movie like stereotypes do not exist, and I am fortunate to have such people as my friends who prove this fact over and over. Yet, there are people who somehow just have to compartmentalize people and put them in air tight pigeon-holes.
If, these days, even pigeons are not contained in pigeon-holes, and explore their limits freely, then why can’t we?
1st things 1st… till today i could never differentiate between spiritual & religious !!! having read your those 2 lines… suddenly i was like… its so damn clear !!! thanx !!
having said that… amazing blog… though it can be seen as one being written as a way to release pent up frustration… nice nonetheless !!
Am into literature these days which speaks a lot about free pigeons and stuff like that. I already started living that way. Happy to see a soul joining me in the first place. Welcome and Cheers! | 2019-04-21T14:58:47Z | https://whizwoman.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/no-pigeonholes-please/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.632364 |
wordpress | The Sustainable Adventures of LUNO!
A children’s book about a boy named Luno, who rides on one wheel to South America. It overcomes adversity, nay-sayers, and wild animals. Illustrated entirely by my foot (feet, actually.) Purchase your copy here.
My Uncle is a Wild Beast! A Kid’s Book about Individuality!
In this children’s book, my niece Lucy wants discover the truth: is her Uncle Cary really a Wild Beast? She follows my wild adventures and finds out for herself. Alas, I am just an Uncle, albeit a very cool uncle. The moral in the end is that some of us uncles and some of us folks are just very different. Very unique. We simply have to love the weirdness in each other! | 2019-04-22T00:30:14Z | https://caryoutthere.wordpress.com/kids-books/ | Porn | Kids | 0.989656 |
wordpress | I was using any excuse to read books on Paris, guidebooks especially. Combining this with the Australian Women Writer’s Challenge is a win-win situation.
Paris: A guide to the city’s creative heart is a beautiful book to read and to look at, with photographs and descriptive language that take you on a journey of words along the laneways and boulevards of one the world’s most beautiful cities.
The author and photographer is Janelle McCulloch, who has written several books on architecture, travel and cooking, gardening and interior design. She has used her expertise gleaned from numerous trips to deliver an insider’s guide to one of the most beautiful and stylish cities of the world.
While it is recommended to take with you as a guide, I’d be reluctant to, as it is such a beautiful book and I am afraid it would get knocked about in my luggage. It is a coffee-table style book that is perfect to dip into to while away an hour or so curled up on the couch on a rainy afternoon.
The book is divided into two parts- the first part being a stroll through the arrondissements of Paris- a flaneur’s guide, with the second part a handbook to shops, galleries and museums, bookstores, fashion, fabric and accessories that you will find.
The descriptions of the arrondissements flow- Janelle writes beautifully and evocatively. The photos accompanying the chapters are exquisite, but I would much rather captions with the photos rather than captions at the back of the book.
The maps of arrondissements are hand drawn giving it a bespoke feel. Truly the book befits its subject matter :).
It is a lovely gift for Francophiles, and for those who want to keep their memories of Paris alive!
We head to the Gare du Nord on foot to catch the Eurostar, check in and head through passport control. It feels strange to be talking to an English officer in Paris in English.
Getting on the train proves to be an interesting exercise. Heading to the car we’re supposed to be on, I circle around a gaggle of elderly English women returning from a trip who are clustered around the doorway. ‘Excuse me,’ I hear from one of the women’ There IS a QUEUE.’ I haven’t yet touched English soil, and already I’m being castigated for not having minded the great English institution of the queue. ‘Sorry,’ I reply, ‘I thought you were just standing around talking.’ In my defence, there was no discernible line, and all they appeared to be doing was discussing how to get on the train. They puff up in indignagion at someone actually talking back to them rather than saying the usual response (sorry!), and an American couple smile at me. Clearly they have had experience with the queue nazis.
We leave Paris, head through some stunning countryside under overcast skies and emerge from the Channel Tunnel to…sunshine. I know! I was pretty floored- gobsmacked, flummoxed and bewildered. It feels quite alien to have sunny weather in England.
We meet my brother Andrew at the railway station and head for our accommodation in Highbury. It’s halfway between Andrew’s and my other brother Mark’s flats. It overlooks Highbury fields, another playground and is about 50 metres from a Tube station and a supermarket. The kids are also super excited because it’s a chance to see TV in English for the first time in three weeks. Actually we’re pretty excited too 🙂 .
London is familiar and alien at the same time, and the good weather makes it even more alien. People are flocking to the commons to sit in the grass and read, sunbake, have picnic dinners, throw a Frisbee, or kick the footy around (a round football). At the local shopping centre in Angel, deckchairs were available for shoppers to sunbake in the courtyard. I had seen the same type of behaviour in Paris, where small living spaces make for a great appreciation of green communal spaces and playgrounds for children. However whereas the English love nothing more than to sit on the grass, the French seem to prefer benches and chairs- all the better to avoid grass stains 🙂 .
And just like Paris, London can keep on surprising you- we found the TARDIS at Earl’s Court! Master BG wanted to know how we knew it was there. His dad informed him he was friends with Amy Pond and she sent him an email telling him it would be there that day 🙂 .
Once upon a time there was a little boy and girl who were travelling around Europe with their Mum and Dad. When they got to Paris the Mum and Dad asked the little boy what he wanted to do. ‘Climb the Eiffel Tower!’ was the answer. His teacher had gone up the tower and he wanted to do the same. So they arrive at the tower to find….a queue, the most hated aspect of travelling to popular tourist spots.
Unfortunately only one lift was in operation and the queue to get on stretched miles and miles. The family shivered in the wind and the cold. The little girl shivered and complained about the long wait, but the mum and dad persisted, until defeated by the cold wind they departed for the relative warmth of a carousel.
The second time they arrived it was slightly warmer, but the queue was even longer. The parents looked at each other in despair. What was the point of standing in a line for over two hours when there was so much else to see in Paris? The family retreated to travel on a Seine river cruise and sight see, and vowed to get up even earlier, come hell or high water.
The third time, the family turned up one hour before the tour was to open. They joined the queue, which only had about 100 people in front of them. They were warmly dressed, and prepared for the wait. They stuck it out, and were rewarded. The tower finally opened, the moved along in the queue, bought their tickets and got on that blasted tower. It didn’t matter that it was foggy and overcast and they couldn’t see as far as they liked. They were on the tower, and it wasn’t too crowded, and there was heaps of cool information about the tower aimed at schoolchildren who would come and visit on an excursion. The mum, dad, little boy and little girl were very happy that they finally got to climb the Eiffel Tower.
We’re staying in a writer’s flat a stone’s throw from Sacre Coeur. It’s a part of Paris that is a bit unfamiliar to me, so just going for a walk will always uncover surprises.
In fact the flat itself has a couple of surprises, with a few cunning storage spaces. It takes me a day to locate the hairdryer, and another day to realise we hadn’t properly plugged in the wifi. Unfortunately we never seem to find where the spare toilet paper is stored and we have to go out and get some (a hairdryer I can live without as I discovered in Florence, but I do need loo paper!). There are books in English to read- I read about 3 in the week we are here, and we refer to the flat as Barbara’s place. She is like the absent relative who has let us stay in her place, with strict instructions regarding the kitchen bench (always wipe up as it’s not properly sealed) and the bathroom (don’t sit on the see of the bath as it’s fragile. Oh and an insurance assessor will be coming g around to look at water damage on the ceiling from an upstairs flat).
I have an afternoon nap the day after we arrive from Florence, still recovering from a cold. Mr BG took the kids out for a walk up to Sacre Coeur and to the carousel at the foot of the church. The afternoon crush of tourists to see Sacre Coeur is amazing- we have an inkling of this as the tour buses drop them off just around the corner from our square.
Subsequent strolls reveal even more surprises- another carousel and the Abbesses Metro station with full Art Nouveau trims and just around the corner from that, a vintage fashion shop! I buy a jacket for 15 euro, mainly to keep warm, but it still looks quite nice. On Friday afternoon, we are able to buy dinner from the market which appears in our square, a roast chicken and beautiful potatoes.
We find the best time to stroll is morning, when the rubbish collectors are hard at work clearing up the previous day’s rubbish. Sacre Coeur looks quite peaceful, even with Korean evangelists singing and speaking in tongues on its steps.
The best thing about our location is the playground just outside our front door. We play there every day, with lots of seating for parents to keep an eye on children. The kids, despite language barriers, make friends and play quite happily with the locals. We learn the French for ‘push (poussez!) and that French dads are the same as other dads when they’re dragged to the playground. ‘Allez papa!’ cries a little boy as he drsgs his reluctant dad to the roundabout to push him and the other children. He does so for a couple of minutes before beating a hasty retreat to the comfort of his bench. | 2019-04-23T00:50:08Z | https://bookgrrl.wordpress.com/tag/paris/ | Porn | Society | 0.394975 |
wordpress | Once again I had left it far too long between expeditions and when I got an opportunity to get out for a quick activation I was keen to go for it. My son was visiting from the UK and had expressed interest in doing a bit of 4WD-ing so, as the Tin Mine Trail through the Woomargama National Park is easily accessible and not too far from home I thought that would be a good choice. And, of course, the Tin Mine Trail goes past at least three SOTA Summits none of which I had activated this year. In deference to my son’s non-radio background I planned to activate only Mt Jergyle VK2/RI-004 and to keep the others in reserve.
The drive up from Tunnel Road through the State Forest and into the Woomargama National Park is relatively easy, particularly as there is no active logging going on in the area at present. The Tin Mine Trail itself was deeply rutted in places and obviously had been very muddy in the previous months, with some very deep bog-holes in evidence. Fortunately they had all dried out and were passable with care, without getting the vehicle covered in mud.
I used the Barrett 940 for this activation, with the 26m doublet hung from a tree branch about 6 metres above the ground. Fortunately there are plenty of trees around Mt Jergyle so it was possible to select an operating location in the shade. There was a great deal of ant activity so choosing a spot that wasn’t right on top of an ant’s nest proved challenging, though eventually we found a place where we could set up without the little buggers climbing all over us.
HF band conditions were poor and although I put up a spot and called CQ on 80m no contacts resulted. In the end I went up to 40m and stayed there, making several contacts on CW before the UTC roll-over and several more on SSB afterwards. No S2S contacts were made this time, though I noted later that if I’d stayed put for another 15 minutes I’d probably have caught Peter VK3PF who was activating a few Summits down towards Mt Sassafras. Them’s the breaks, I guess!
We proceeded along the Tin Mine Trail and stopped for lunch at the Tin Mine Camping Area, which to my surprise was completely deserted. No doubt it won’t be so quiet up there this time next week when the Christmas holidays are in full swing and everyone’s out and about giving their 4WD its annual trip to the bush! Dave got his go at 4WD-ing and was enjoying himself so much that we decided to keep going rather than stopping to activate any more Summits. | 2019-04-25T10:53:21Z | https://vk2ib.wordpress.com/expeditions/2017-2/december-2017/mt-jergyle-vk2-ri-004/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.980126 |
wordpress | We’ve all heard of the Atkins Diet, California Diet, and the Mediterranean Diet: now make way for the Wheat Belly Diet. Eminent cardiologist Dr. William Davis believes the world’s most popular grain is the most destructive dietary ingredient on the market today. As well as gaining a wheatbelly when it is eaten, there is hardly an organ that is not damaged by eating it.
Bread and other foods made from wheat have sustained humans for centuries. However, the wheat that is harvested today is nothing like the original grain. Today there are over 25,000 varieties, most of them coming from the laboratory. So intent were the geneticists on increasing wheat yields to ease world hunger, no animal or human safety testing was ever carried out on the new genetic strains.
Dr. Davis links the health problems of North Americans from fatigue, arthritis, IBS and obesity to wheat addiction. Patients following his diet have seen both health improvements and “flop over the belly fat” vanish. They also reported improved mood, fewer mood swings, better concentration and deeper sleep within days to weeks of their last bagel, doughnut or baked lasagna.
Many case studies in the book profile patients who initially had serious health problems, who all seemed to recover once they ventured down the wheat free path. The basics he lists are to eliminate wheat products (either cold turkey or gradually) and replace them with vegetables, raw nuts, healthy meats, eggs, cheeses, (fruit and dairy products in small quantities), plus good oils such as virgin olive or coconut oil. He suggests filling up on a larger portion of baked chicken, green beans, scrambled eggs, or salad. He includes lots of recipes to try out, which you will need to get you started.
If you really want to get serious about getting wheat out of your diet, the Wheat Belly Cookbook is just the ticket for you. The first section describes his theories on eliminating wheat, in which he freely admits that going without wheat can be downright frightening. The main section is then devoted to all the recipes you will ever need: smoothies, soups, mains, salads and desserts to replace wheat with healthy alternatives.
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wordpress | All Reyna Daniel’s needs to do is pull off the Black Plate Event in Minneapolis to secure her return home from Chicago. The last thing she needs is find her world completely inundated by the magnetizing, hostile Corbyn Bruschard and his group of male-model friends. Yet they’re not only sitting at her brother’s table, already a part of his family, they’re connected to everyone she knows in Minnesota, including her own boss!
Corbyn’s not ashamed at being everywhere, since it’s his territory, and he’s certainly not going to apologize for trying to keep Reyna safe. Especially when she’s his mate! Unfortunately, his beautiful Valkyrie of a woman is in complete denial over her true nature, a common and sorrowful result of the bloody war that had nearly wiped their entire race out of existence merely three decades before. | 2019-04-20T14:34:46Z | https://brickleyjules.wordpress.com/2018/03/23/hearthstone-alpha-the-ulfrinn-series-book-1-by-a-c-melody/ | Porn | Society | 0.328517 |
wordpress | Firms lobbying on Armenia genocide resolution.
Six companies lobbied the federal government in the first quarter on a House resolution that would condemn World War I-era killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide.
Details on how much each company spent on lobbying in the January-March period and some of the other matters identified. The companies do not specify how much is spent on the various issues in the disclosure reports filed with the House clerk’s office.
–Chevron Corp., $6.8 million. Climate change, oil industry taxes, energy efficiency, renewable fuels, public lands policy, price gouging.
–Northrop Grumman Corp., nearly $2.6 million. Defense spending, research tax credits, climate change.
–United Technologies Corp., nearly $1.9 million. NASA funding, climate change, patent reform, energy and electricity standards.
–Raytheon Co., nearly $1.4 million. Defense spending, air traffic control funding, export control reform.
–BAE Systems Inc., more than $1.1 million. Defense spending, hybrid-electric technology, research and development tax credits.
IBF/WBA/WBC super flyweight champion Vic Darchinyan (32-1-1, 26 KOs) is looking forward to winning the IBF bantamweight title from Joseph Agbeko (26-1, 22 KOs) when they clash on July 11 at the Bank Atlantic Center in Sunrise, Florida.
Darchinyan will be sparring with WBA featherweight champion Chris John while he is in the USA. If Darchinyan is successful in winning the bantamweight championship he will equal Jeff Fenech as Australia’s three divisional world champion. He has already equalled Kostya Tszyu by holding all the major body belts of IBF/WBC/WBA. Darchinyan is managed by Elias Nasser and promoted by Gary Shaw.
The Armenian National Committee-Western Region (ANC-WR), joined by community organizations and activists, met with KFI640-AM radio show host Bill Handel and station management regarding offensive comments that aired on Handel’s radio show on May 13 and 14 during a discussion between Handel and Lara Hermanson.
Acknowledging that a line had been crossed, Handel, KFI and Clear Channel management apologized to the Armenian American community. With Handel himself being a descendent of Holocaust survivors, he also made it clear that recognition of the Armenian Genocide is something he has been aware of and passionate about throughout his career and promised to continue raising awareness about the issue.
“We deeply regret the inappropriate comments that were made on Bill Handel’s show last month which deeply hurt the Armenian American community. The comments were wrong,” said Robin Bertolucci, KFI Program Director. “We take responsibility for this offense as any genocide, including the Armenian Genocide, are serious topics that should not be used as the basis for humor.” KFI issued an on-air apology on June 12. KFI also released a video apology from Hermanson and Handel.
Interview with Corry Guttstadt Turkey, the Jews and the Holocaust.
Corry Guttstadt: Well, there are currently over 20,000 Jews in Iran too. A number alone is not necessarily a reliable indication of whether somewhere is safe or free from anti-Semitism. As far as Turkey is concerned, it is important to emphasise that only 20,000 Jews now live in the country. That’s in stark contrast to the estimated 120,000 to 150,000 that lived in the region at the end of the First World War. Both before and after the Second World War, and most particularly after the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, the vast majority of Jews left Turkey. This was a reversal of the trend of previous centuries.
Over the course of many centuries, the Ottoman Empire was an immigration destination for Jews fleeing the Reconquista in Spain and pogroms in Eastern Europe. Nevertheless, to portray the Ottoman Empire as a “multicultural paradise” is absurd and ahistorical. As non-Muslims, the Jews were subject to countless constraints. Like the Christians, they had to pay a poll tax and were obliged to behave in a submissive manner towards Muslims. Moreover, it must be said that there were numerous fluctuations in the fortunes of the Jews in the 600-year history of the Ottoman Empire. | 2019-04-20T09:04:06Z | https://realarmenia.wordpress.com/2009/06/ | Porn | Sports | 0.886165 |
wordpress | To split a pipe(|), comma(,), tab, space,…. separated string into multiple string values in ActionScript 3.0, you will have to use the split() method of String class. Below is short example where in a pipe(|) seperated string is broken up into multiple values and pushed into an array.
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wordpress | We know little about the provenance of the Cookbook, and its passage from the eighteenth-century kitchen to our library shelves is shrouded in mystery.
It was originally thought that the book was written by a group of ladies about the year 1761, the date deriving from a rough note on the original binding. However, there are later recipes interspersed among those from the Eighteenth Century. Many are drawn from William Kitchiner’s Cook’s Oracle, which was first published in 1817 and appeared in many editions.
Other recipes appear to have been compiled far earlier than 1761. Our analysis of handwriting and spelling in the cookbook suggests that some of its entries were written at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, and in a few cases may even pre-date 1700.
As for the identity of the Cookbook‘s authors, there are a number of clues. Some of our writers give named sources for their recipes (e.g. ‘Mr Walsh his potted beef’). There are regional recipes, a pub name, and specified family members (‘Aunt Preston’). But, even with these leads, the ‘Unknown Ladies’ of our cookbook have yet to be identified.
We’ll be exploring some of these clues as we share recipes from the Cookbook on this blog over the coming year. We’d love to hear from you if you have any information about where our book may have come from – email us at archives@westminster.gov.uk or leave us a message on the blog!
I love this blog! I do a lot of research in history for my novels, and I love cooking – so anything that combines the two is a great find! Thank you for stopping by The Writer’s Stuff; I’ll be posting more in future of the Art of Cookery, so stay tuned. You might also like another blog of mine, Cuppanatter – modern recipes, but some also translated from German as I am in Switzerland.
This is a fascinating blog. I write articles on herbal lore and came across this blog while searching for recipes using tansy. Thank you for sharing this cookbook and its history.
Hi there, I love the concept of your blog and nominated you for a blog award.
Hi Aneela, thank you so much for the blog award nomination, I’m really glad you’re enjoying The Cookbook of Unknown Ladies! I’ll post something very soon to share the sites we’ll be nominating for the award and keep the chain going…!
I really love this blog – history and food (and archives), my favorite things. I’ve recently given you the Sunshine Blog Award. It is given to those who positively inspire others in the “blogoshphere”. I’ve mentioned you in my recent post, Sunshine & Stars. There is no need to follow the “rules” unless you want to carry on the “chain” and make nominations yourself. So, congratulations!
Hi there. Thank you so much for the nomination… We’re really thrilled you’re enjoying the Cookbook of Unknown Ladies! We’ll be posting something very shortly to share some of the inspiring sites we’ve come across while writing this blog.
We’ll be sharing some festive Georgian recipes in the run up to Christmas, I hope you’ll enjoy them!
I really do love the blog – great writing and lots of things of interest. I have worked as an archivist and have made use of archives for some of my professional articles and know what treasures lie on shelves in forgotten corners of libraries. It’s often the seemingly mundane things that have the greatest interest when presented in the right way as you have done with this blog. I wish I could have known some of your “unknown ladies”. Congratulations and well deserved!
Hi – so glad to have found this site, as I’m working on a library research project curating seventeenth and eighteenth century recipe books. Could you tell me what the dimensions of the books are? Thanks!
Hi, the dimensions of the book are 6.5 inches by 8.5 inches. Hope that’s helpful, your project sounds very interesting! | 2019-04-23T10:51:05Z | https://lostcookbook.wordpress.com/about/ | Porn | Arts | 0.515114 |
wordpress | 1. What is your favorite vacation destination and why? Where exactly in the world is it located?
Kythira is small island in Greece opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula and near to Crete. It is traditionally listed as one of the seven main Ionian Islands, It is the island where my mother is coming from and the place I spent all summers of my childhood.
2. What are several places everyone visiting this destination should see?
It is a magic island and has so many places to go and things to see.
My personal favorite is Avlemonas village, a small fish village on the east side of the island, with scenic coves. A peaceful place with a beautiful seaside and seaside where you can swim like a pool!!
Mylopotamos is an other beautiful village…It has different personality from Avlemonas, with waterfalls and an amazing passage through the woods with 16 mini watermills that lead to an amazing beach.
Chora is the capital of the island..Traditional island village with tiny white houses and a spectacular Venetian castle to dominate on the top!!
One of my favorite walking tours is the one for the Moudari Lighthouse,which is located at the northernmost point of the island, at Cape Spathi. It is a very well conditioned lighthouse which you can also visit inside and the view from up there is breathtaking!
3. What special customs, traditions, geography, nature etc. are intriguing about this destination?
To begin with,in Ancient Greek mythology, Kythira was considered to be the island of celestial Aphrodite, the Goddess of love.
Geographically, even it belongs to the Ionian islands, it is located at the southwestern exit from the Aegean Sea. This particularity, makes this island unique.. It has combines many different landscapes.. the green and rich in vegetation part of Ionian and at the same time the wild and without water landscape of Cyclades…A combination that every visitor can either love it or hate it. There is no middle situation in Kithira.
Near to Kithira, you can find a tiny tiny island, the Antikithira island.
Between these to islands, in April 1900 Antikythera mechanism was found by a group of Greek sponge divers. Antikithire MEchanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes.It is consider to be a huge archeological discovery and the wreck that it is still at this location continues to reveal a lot of secrets to our archeologists.
4. Where are the hot spots to eat and drink?
The best place to eat on this island is Kaleris restaurant. It is a tavern on Agia Pelagia village on the north-eastern part of the island. It is a family business and the son of the owner is a great chef..He worked for years in European restaurants with success and he decided to come back and cook for Kithirians and visitors of this island!
In Avlemonas village there are two traditional fish taverns, both of them have delicious and fresh food!
For drinks, Araxtopolio is what you are looking for! It is also located in Avlemonas, on the old harbor. Stavros is there for you to make the best cocktails.
At Potamos village you will find Astikon. it is a bar-cafe with life music most of the summer.It is very cosy and graphical.
If you are looking for something even more mystic, Amir Ali bar in Karavas is your choice. You will spot it on the side streets of the village as you are going to find the water springs of Amir Ali. Romantic and out of this world.
And of course you should stop at Karavas Bakery in the entrance of the village. This is were the famous Kithirian paximadia are made and distributed all over the world. Pavlos, the owner has renovated his family old mill and can give you a tour to his bakery with pleasure!
5. Have you been to your favorite vacation destination more than once and will you visit again?
I was living there for five years, working on my jewelry shop, spent all my childhood summers and revisiting every time I have the chance!
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wordpress | This weekend I will be backpacking Humphreys Peak (The tallest mountain in Arizona which is 12,600 ft tall!) and I ‘m bringing a 4×5 field view camera. It’s going to be an amazing experience, however, I’m nervous about bringing the extra weight and freezing to death! The high this weekend will be 28 degrees and I don’t even want to know of how low the low will be! I didn’t think of this until now, but, I wonder if the icy cold temperature will effect the film I’m going to use. I’ll be shooting with Illford iso 100. I guess time will tell. Here’s a cool video so you can get a sense of where I’ll be shooting. I’ll get pictures up as soon as I can!
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wordpress | Tooba Arshad: An emerging author; an aspiring editor!
“It is true that one should write for themselves, and I do, but there are times when that just is not enough. There are times when you need people to understand why you do what you do” says Tooba Arshad in this exclusive interview.
Tooba Arshad is the author of “Unveiling the Unknown” a mystery thriller and dark fiction, which revolves around a 16-year-old Pakistani girl, Reeza, who has been kidnapped owing to a case of mistaken identity. The setting is spread over two continents, and the plot deals with international crime, intelligence agencies, crime mobs, self-discovery, family ties, and most importantly, character building. The novel has everything; from nail-biting suspense and reality-based action sequences, to a rather dark yet warm theme.
Tooba’s novel has been published by Daastan Publishing.
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I think of myself as a passionate individual with diverse interests. I am a dedicated writer, a student, an unorthodox teacher, a motivational speaker, an aspiring editor, a born skeptic, and an obvious ambivert, with a strong personal moral code.
2. When did you start writing?
As far as I can remember, I have always been a writer. I do remember the first time I was appreciated for it though. I was 10 years old and studying in grade 6. I wrote seven short poems in a fortnight to impress my English language teacher. Although that was the only time I tried my hand at poetry until recently, I have been writing since then.
3. Share your experience of when you became a published author?
It was a long, exhausting, and frustrating ride…but in the end, I guess it is always worth it. I have been luckier than most, because I no longer feel that all my efforts are for nothing. It is true that one should write for themselves, and I do, but there are times when that just is not enough. There are times when you need people to understand why you do what you do. And I have never felt so accomplished as I did when my work finally got published.
4. “Unveiling the Unknown” is your debut novel. What is the story about?
“Unveiling the Unknown” is a mystery thriller, it is dark fiction, which revolves around a 16-year-old Pakistani girl, Reeza, who has been kidnapped owing to a case of mistaken identity. The setting is spread over two continents, and the plot deals with international crime, intelligence agencies, crime mobs, self-discovery, family ties, and most importantly, character building. The novel has everything; from nail biting suspense and reality-based action sequences, to a rather dark yet warm theme. In a nutshell, “Unveiling the Unknown” is not your usual mystery novel, but a life and death kind of story.
5. What challenges did you face when writing the story?
I was in a dark place when I started writing that novel. I had recently finished college, and my family was going through some tough times. Writing was my distraction, and probably the most selfish thing I have ever done. My biggest challenge was disconnecting myself from the fictional world, and making time for my loved ones. And when I finally did, it took me days to get back into that mindset again. Another challenge was continuing to write, when I was sure there was no point to it. When I was halfway through my novel, I had started searching for platforms to showcase my writing and was severely discouraged by the experience. But, it was the timeless love and endless support of my friends and my family that kept me going despite everything.
6. You were writing a book and focusing on studies. How did you manage these two distinct aspects of your life?
It is always a matter of priorities. For me, they keep cycling between the two. It is hectic, for sure, but I am determined not to give up either one of them. It helps, though, that I have been a multitasker all my life.
7. Who are your favorite Pakistani authors?
To be honest, I have not read a lot of literature written by Pakistani authors. But pieces by Ibn-e-Insha and Mushtaq Ahmed Yousfi are a welcome sight.
8. Where do you see yourself ten years down the road?
Life is unpredictable, and so are my choices. That is probably why I have not thought out my life that far. It does not matter how far I would have come then, or what I would be pursuing. All that matters is my passion, which I hope will grow as my personality does.
9. Writing requires persistence and imagination. How do you find the inner peace to write?
It is the other way around for me; I write to find that peace. My mind is constantly raging conflict, and writing helps settle it down a bit. That is all the motivation I need!
10. What message will you give to aspiring writers?
Keep at it. Even if you do not see a possible future, even if the process is frustrating, even if the circumstances are discouraging. Find it in you to rise above all that. Because, trust me, there is always a silver lining. Writing can work wonders in helping you grow as a person, and that should be your best accomplishment. Do it for yourself!
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wordpress | Agha Shahid Ali’s gazal ‘Tonight’ is a superb poem. As is suitable for a ghazal it is a virtuoso. The complex weaving of history, the intertextuality, the internal echos all dazzle the reader by the sheer brilliance and control. To write a gazal in English and then to make it self-reflexive is no mean act. Hats off, Ali saab!
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wordpress | I read this article today – IE9 Tabs instead of New Windows for CRM 2011, I have had a few users of CRM who have complained about the number of windows they can soon have up on their screen, sometimes you can easily get 8 screens open and then you spend ages opening all the screens trying to find the one you want.
The blog linked shows you how to set pop ups to tabs in IE9 but after reading the instructions it seemed the key to stopping CRM creating lots of new screens was stopping the pop screens. These settings can be also be set in IE8 as you can see below.
CRM 4 – Can’t assign FilterExpresion it’s read only!
There is nothing more frustrating when the sample code doesn’t work or compile. The answer was oddly simple and I assume they must have changed how it worked sometime after CRM 4 was released and maybe I haven’t updated my sample code.
Anyway as the message said read only I used a bit of of intellisense to see what I could do with the condition and found there was an add.
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wikipedia | The Westerham Valley branch line was a short railway line in Kent that connected Westerham, Brasted and Chevening with the village of Dunton Green and the South Eastern Main Line, a distance of 4.5 miles (7.2 km).
Authorisation for the construction of the line was obtained in 1864, 1867 and 1870 by the South Eastern Railway (SER). No works having been undertaken by 1876, several local inhabitants, aware of the advantages of the railway and impatient for action, rallied together to sponsor a bill similar to the original 1864 bill. The line was to be built in two phases: phase one from Dunton Green via Brasted to Westerham, and phase two covering the 4 miles from Westerham to Oxted, where it would join the Oxted Line, the construction of which had not by then been completed. However, the second phase was never realised due to opposition from the SER.
The line was authorised on 24 July 1876 and the Westerham Valley Railway Company was formed to oversee its construction and to take over formal ownership. An agreement was then concluded in 1879 with the South Eastern Railway by which the latter would undertake the construction works and eventually operate the line. The actual cost of construction was in the region of £70,000 and the line opened on 7 July 1881. Initially, the service ran only from Westerham to Dunton Green where passengers wishing to travel to London Charing Cross (via Cannon Street) would have to change. Formal ownership of the line was transferred to the South Eastern Railway in August 1881 at which point the Westerham Valley Railway Company was dissolved.
In 1899, SER merged with its bitter rival, the London, Chatham and Dover Railway (LCDR) to form the South Eastern and Chatham Railway (SECR).
In 1923, the Westerham Valley branch, together with its operators the SECR, became part of the Southern Railway at the grouping.
The Southern Railway was nationalised in 1948 and became the Southern Region of British Railways.
The line began to suffer competition with buses, notably the 403 route which ran from Croydon via Sanderstead, Chelsham and Westerham to Sevenoaks, and as train fares rose dramatically from 1938, passenger numbers fell. By 1960 the line was reported to be losing £26,000 per year and a proposal was made to close it in April 1960. However, the Central Transport Users' Consultative Committee argued against this move, claiming that 200 passengers per day used the line.
This advice was rejected by the then Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples, and the last day of operation of the line would be 28 October 1961. He rejected a petition against closure signed by almost 2,500 local inhabitants and presented by the MP for Sevenoaks, John Rodgers. The Minister claimed that service was losing £26,000 per year which was equivalent to £150 per passenger. One of the last trains to run was the "Westerham Flyer", a Class H 0-4-4T No. 31518 flying a Union Jack and bearing the notice "Flyer 1881-1961".
In 1962, the Westerham Valley Railway Association, born of a merger between two local interest groups, the Westerham Branch Railway Passengers' Association and the Westerham Valley Railway Society, began to investigate the possibility of re-opening the line, staffed by volunteers, for commuters on weekdays and as a heritage railway at weekends between April and October. British Railways offered the ownership of the line for £30,000 on the basis that a commuter service would be provided, thereby allowing it to cease its subsidies of bus services which were now over-subscribed following the closure of the Westerham branch. In July 1962, British Railways granted a lease of Westerham Station building, which became the Headquarters of the Association. A lease of Brasted Station was also later agreed.
However, British Railways were later to change their policy regarding the disposal of disused branch lines and, as they had done with the Bluebell Railway, were no longer prepared to simply lease the line to a private operator. Instead, they now required an outright sale of the line to the Association for £53,000. Thanks to the help of an anonymous backer, the Association was able to put forward an offer of £30,000 for the track, buildings, land and branch platform at Dunton Green. British Railways accepted this offer subject to the condition that a commuter service be provided, thereby enabling it to cease its annual subsidy of £8,700 towards the additional bus services laid on following the line's closure.
The withdrawal of the backer following the refusal of his planning application to develop land at Westerham Station cast serious doubt on the proposed re-opening. In the Association's Annual General Meeting on 2 November 1963, members were informed that efforts to raise the £30,000 plus £10,000 for equipment had failed. Furthermore, British Railways were now in talks with the Kent County Council regarding the sale of the line to enable the construction of the A21 Sevenoaks bypass which required the demolition of a bridge along the route of the line.
More positive news was received later in November 1963 when it was revealed that not only had a new backer been found, but also that terms were agreed with British Railways for the sale of the land to the Association. However, one month later, Kent County Council contacted the Association and informed them that the Council's intended purchase of the land would save taxpayers the sum of £120,000 and, furthermore, that in the event British Railways were unwilling to sell the land to it, as had been intimated, compulsory purchase powers would be used. Faced with the prospect of a compulsory sale, British Railways now broke off negotiations with the Association and agreed to sell the line to the Council.
However, in April 1964, the Council indicated their willingness to lease the line to the Association, thereby ensuring the line's continued existence if the Association were to finance the cost of constructing a bridge over the railway cutting at Chevening to enable the Sevenoaks bypass to cross it. The cost of this bridge was estimated by the Council at £14,000, added to which was the annual rent of the line of £3,000. The estimate of £14,000 was revised upwards in August 1964, to a figure of £26,215 (equivalent to £355,800 in modern currency) which was to be paid by 24 August, otherwise works would commence to infill the cutting.
In the meantime, the purchase of several former Metropolitan Railway coaches and a Class H 0-4-4T locomotive No. 31263 had been agreed and were awaiting collection. Initially, British Railways had allowed the stock to be stored at Dunton Green, but since the intervention of the Kent County Council, it became 'reluctant' to allow this and threatened to scrap the stock were it not collected. The coaches were loaned and later sold to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and the locomotive to the Bluebell Railway where it remains today.
By November 1964 the funds to construct the bridge had still not been found and, following the infilling of the Chevening cutting, the Association realised that their plans to re-open the line could no longer be realised. This was notwithstanding intervention by the MP for Faversham, Terence Boston, who unsuccessfully attempted to persuade the new Labour Minister of Transport, Tom Fraser, to hold an enquiry into the County Council's plans to convert the line into motorway.
In autumn 1965, the Association merged with the Kent & East Sussex Railway Preservation Society. By March 1967 the railway track had been lifted and Westerham Station demolished. Works on the section of the M25 from Sundridge Road to Westerham commenced in December 1976 and were completed in December 1979.
Save for the section taken by the M25, a surprising amount of the line still remains and it is possible to walk from Dunton Green as far as junction 5 on the motorway which is situated near Chevening. Nothing remains of the three stations, save for several houses in Railway Terrace, Westerham, near the site of the old station. The site of Westerham station is now covered by a road known as "The Flyers Way" after the name by which the train was known locally. Perhaps of additional interest to collectors of railway memorabilia is the extreme rarity of the former Southern Railway target station sign for Brasted, which currently (2008) holds the record of £3250 for the highest price paid at auction for such a sign. The site of Brasted station is now under the westbound hard shoulder lane of the M25 although the station approach road and site of the goods yard can be seen alongside the motorway. The site of Chevening Halt is now a field alongside the M25/A21 interchange although it is possible the platform may still exist buried when the cutting was infilled for the M25/A21 roadworks.
^ Gould 1999, p. 10.
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wikipedia | For over 30 years, bone marrow has been used to treat people with cancer with conditions such as leukaemia and lymphoma; this is the only form of stem-cell therapy that is widely practiced. During chemotherapy, most growing cells are killed by the cytotoxic agents. These agents, however, cannot discriminate between the leukaemia or neoplastic cells, and the hematopoietic stem cells within the bone marrow. It is this side effect of conventional chemotherapy strategies that the stem-cell transplant attempts to reverse; a donor's healthy bone marrow reintroduces functional stem cells to replace the cells lost in the host's body during treatment. The transplanted cells also generate an immune response that helps to kill off the cancer cells; this process can go too far, however, leading to graft vs host disease, the most serious side effect of this treatment.
Another stem-cell therapy called Prochymal, was conditionally approved in Canada in 2012 for the management of acute graft-vs-host disease in children who are unresponsive to steroids. It is an allogenic stem therapy based on mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from the bone marrow of adult donors. MSCs are purified from the marrow, cultured and packaged, with up to 10,000 doses derived from a single donor. The doses are stored frozen until needed.
The FDA has approved five hematopoietic stem-cell products derived from umbilical cord blood, for the treatment of blood and immunological diseases.
In 2014, the European Medicines Agency recommended approval of limbal stem cells for people with severe limbal stem cell deficiency due to burns in the eye.
Diseases and conditions where stem cell treatment is promising or emerging.
Stem cells are being studied for a number of reasons. The molecules and exosomes released from stem cells are also being studied in an effort to make medications. In addition to the functions of the cells themselves, paracrine soluble factors produced by stem cells, known as the stem cell secretome, has been found to be another mechanism by which stem cell-based therapies mediate their effects in degenerative, auto-immune and inflammatory diseases.
Research has been conducted on the effects of stem cells on animal models of brain degeneration, such as in Parkinson's, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and Alzheimer's disease. There have been preliminary studies related to multiple sclerosis.
Healthy adult brains contain neural stem cells which divide to maintain general stem-cell numbers, or become progenitor cells. In healthy adult laboratory animals, progenitor cells migrate within the brain and function primarily to maintain neuron populations for olfaction (the sense of smell). Pharmacological activation of endogenous neural stem cells has been reported to induce neuroprotection and behavioral recovery in adult rat models of neurological disorder.
Stroke and traumatic brain injury lead to cell death, characterized by a loss of neurons and oligodendrocytes within the brain. Clinical and animal studies have been conducted into the use of stem cells in cases of spinal cord injury.
Stem cells are studied in people with severe heart disease. The work by Bodo-Eckehard Strauer was discredited by identifying hundreds of factual contradictions. Among several clinical trials reporting that adult stem cell therapy is safe and effective, actual evidence of benefit has been reported from only a few studies. Some preliminary clinical trials achieved only modest improvements in heart function following use of bone marrow stem cell therapy.
Stem-cell therapy for treatment of myocardial infarction usually makes use of autologous bone marrow stem cells, but other types of adult stem cells may be used, such as adipose-derived stem cells.
In 2013, studies of autologous bone marrow stem cells on ventricular function were found to contain "hundreds" of discrepancies. Critics report that of 48 reports there seemed to be just five underlying trials, and that in many cases whether they were randomized or merely observational accepter-versus-rejecter, was contradictory between reports of the same trial. One pair of reports of identical baseline characteristics and final results, was presented in two publications as, respectively, a 578 patient randomized trial and as a 391 subject observational study. Other reports required (impossible) negative standard deviations in subsets of people, or contained fractional subjects, negative NYHA classes. Overall there were many more people published as having receiving stem cells in trials, than the number of stem cells processed in the hospital's laboratory during that time. A university investigation, closed in 2012 without reporting, was reopened in July 2013.
In 2014, a meta-analysis on stem cell therapy using bone marrow stem cells for heart disease revealed discrepancies in published clinical trial reports, whereby studies with a higher number of discrepancies showed an increase in effect sizes. Another meta-analysis based on the intra-subject data of 12 randomized trials was unable to find any significant benefits of stem cell therapy on primary endpoints, such as major adverse events or increase in heart function measures, concluding there was no benefit.
The TIME trial, which used a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled trial design, concluded that "bone marrow mononuclear cells administration did not improve recovery of LV function over 2 years" in people who had a myocardial infarction. Accordingly, the BOOST-2 trial conducted in 10 medical centers in Germany and Norway reported that the trial result "does not support the use of nucleated BMCs in patients with STEMI and moderately reduced LVEF". Furthermore, the trial also did not meet any other secondary MRI endpoints, leading to a conclusion that intracoronary bone marrow stem cell therapy does not offer a functional or clinical benefit.
The specificity of the human immune-cell repertoire is what allows the human body to defend itself from rapidly adapting antigens. However, the immune system is vulnerable to degradation upon the pathogenesis of disease, and because of the critical role that it plays in overall defense, its degradation is often fatal to the organism as a whole. Diseases of hematopoietic cells are diagnosed and classified via a subspecialty of pathology known as hematopathology. The specificity of the immune cells is what allows recognition of foreign antigens, causing further challenges in the treatment of immune disease. Identical matches between donor and recipient must be made for successful transplantation treatments, but matches are uncommon, even between first-degree relatives. Research using both hematopoietic adult stem cells and embryonic stem cells has provided insight into the possible mechanisms and methods of treatment for many of these ailments.
Fully mature human red blood cells may be generated ex vivo by hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), which are precursors of red blood cells. In this process, HSCs are grown together with stromal cells, creating an environment that mimics the conditions of bone marrow, the natural site of red-blood-cell growth. Erythropoietin, a growth factor, is added, coaxing the stem cells to complete terminal differentiation into red blood cells. Further research into this technique should have potential benefits to gene therapy, blood transfusion, and topical medicine.
In 2004, scientists at King's College London discovered a way to cultivate a complete tooth in mice and were able to grow bioengineered teeth stand-alone in the laboratory. Researchers are confident that the tooth regeneration technology can be used to grow live teeth in people.
In theory, stem cells taken from the patient could be coaxed in the lab turning into a tooth bud which, when implanted in the gums, will give rise to a new tooth, and would be expected to be grown in a time over three weeks. It will fuse with the jawbone and release chemicals that encourage nerves and blood vessels to connect with it. The process is similar to what happens when humans grow their original adult teeth. Many challenges remain, however, before stem cells could be a choice for the replacement of missing teeth in the future.
Heller has reported success in re-growing cochlea hair cells with the use of embryonic stem cells.
Since 2003, researchers have successfully transplanted corneal stem cells into damaged eyes to restore vision. "Sheets of retinal cells used by the team are harvested from aborted fetuses, which some people find objectionable." When these sheets are transplanted over the damaged cornea, the stem cells stimulate renewed repair, eventually restore vision. The latest such development was in June 2005, when researchers at the Queen Victoria Hospital of Sussex, England were able to restore the sight of forty people using the same technique. The group, led by Sheraz Daya, was able to successfully use adult stem cells obtained from the patient, a relative, or even a cadaver. Further rounds of trials are ongoing.
People with Type 1 diabetes lose the function of insulin-producing beta cells within the pancreas. In recent experiments, scientists have been able to coax embryonic stem cell to turn into beta cells in the lab. In theory if the beta cell is transplanted successfully, they will be able to replace malfunctioning ones in a diabetic patient.
Use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from adult stem cells is under preliminary research for potential orthopedic applications in bone and muscle trauma, cartilage repair, osteoarthritis, intervertebral disc surgery, rotator cuff surgery, and musculoskeletal disorders, among others. Other areas of orthopedic research for uses of MSCs include tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Stem cells can also be used to stimulate the growth of human tissues. In an adult, wounded tissue is most often replaced by scar tissue, which is characterized in the skin by disorganized collagen structure, loss of hair follicles and irregular vascular structure. In the case of wounded fetal tissue, however, wounded tissue is replaced with normal tissue through the activity of stem cells. A possible method for tissue regeneration in adults is to place adult stem cell "seeds" inside a tissue bed "soil" in a wound bed and allow the stem cells to stimulate differentiation in the tissue bed cells. This method elicits a regenerative response more similar to fetal wound-healing than adult scar tissue formation. Researchers are still investigating different aspects of the "soil" tissue that are conducive to regeneration. Because of the general healing capabilities of stem cells, they have gained interest for the treatment of cutaneous wounds, such as in skin cancer.
Culture of human embryonic stem cells in mitotically inactivated porcine ovarian fibroblasts (POF) causes differentiation into germ cells (precursor cells of oocytes and spermatozoa), as evidenced by gene expression analysis.
Human embryonic stem cells have been stimulated to form Spermatozoon-like cells, yet still slightly damaged or malformed. It could potentially treat azoospermia.
In 2012, oogonial stem cells were isolated from adult mouse and human ovaries and demonstrated to be capable of forming mature oocytes. These cells have the potential to treat infertility.
Destruction of the immune system by the HIV is driven by the loss of CD4+ T cells in the peripheral blood and lymphoid tissues. Viral entry into CD4+ cells is mediated by the interaction with a cellular chemokine receptor, the most common of which are CCR5 and CXCR4. Because subsequent viral replication requires cellular gene expression processes, activated CD4+ cells are the primary targets of productive HIV infection. Recently scientists have been investigating an alternative approach to treating HIV-1/AIDS, based on the creation of a disease-resistant immune system through transplantation of autologous, gene-modified (HIV-1-resistant) hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (GM-HSPC).
Stem cells are thought to mediate repair via five primary mechanisms: 1) providing an anti-inflammatory effect, 2) homing to damaged tissues and recruiting other cells, such as endothelial progenitor cells, that are necessary for tissue growth, 3) supporting tissue remodeling over scar formation, 4) inhibiting apoptosis, and 5) differentiating into bone, cartilage, tendon, and ligament tissue.
To further enrich blood supply to the damaged areas, and consequently promote tissue regeneration, platelet-rich plasma could be used in conjunction with stem cell transplantation. The efficacy of some stem cell populations may also be affected by the method of delivery; for instance, to regenerate bone, stem cells are often introduced in a scaffold where they produce the minerals necessary for generation of functional bone.
Stem cells have also been shown to have a low immunogenicity due to the relatively low number of MHC molecules found on their surface. In addition, they have been found to secrete chemokines that alter the immune response and promote tolerance of the new tissue. This allows for allogeneic treatments to be performed without a high rejection risk.
The ability to grow up functional adult tissues indefinitely in culture through Directed differentiation creates new opportunities for drug research. Researchers are able to grow up differentiated cell lines and then test new drugs on each cell type to examine possible interactions in vitro before performing in vivo studies. This is critical in the development of drugs for use in veterinary research because of the possibilities of species specific interactions. The hope is that having these cell lines available for research use will reduce the need for research animals used because effects on human tissue in vitro will provide insight not normally known before the animal testing phase.
With the advent of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC), treatments being explored and created for the used in endangered low production animals possible. Rather than needing to harvest embryos or eggs, which are limited, the researchers can remove mesenchymal stem cells with greater ease and greatly reducing the danger to the animal due to noninvasive techniques. This allows the limited eggs to be put to use for reproductive purposes only.
Stem cells are being explored for use in conservation efforts. Spermatogonial stem cells have been harvested from a rat and placed into a mouse host and fully mature sperm were produced with the ability to produce viable offspring. Currently research is underway to find suitable hosts for the introduction of donor spermatogonial stem cells. If this becomes a viable option for conservationists, sperm can be produced from high genetic quality individuals who die before reaching sexual maturity, preserving a line that would otherwise be lost.
Most stem cells intended for regenerative therapy are generally isolated either from the patient's bone marrow or from adipose tissue. Mesenchymal stem cells can differentiate into the cells that make up bone, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments, as well as muscle, neural and other progenitor tissues, they have been the main type of stem cells studied in the treatment of diseases affecting these tissues. The number of stem cells transplanted into damaged tissue may alter efficacy of treatment. Accordingly, stem cells derived from bone marrow aspirates, for instance, are cultured in specialized laboratories for expansion to millions of cells. Although adipose-derived tissue also requires processing prior to use, the culturing methodology for adipose-derived stem cells is not as extensive as that for bone marrow-derived cells. While it is thought that bone-marrow derived stem cells are preferred for bone, cartilage, ligament, and tendon repair, others believe that the less challenging collection techniques and the multi-cellular microenvironment already present in adipose-derived stem cell fractions make the latter the preferred source for autologous transplantation.
New sources of mesenchymal stem cells are being researched, including stem cells present in the skin and dermis which are of interest because of the ease at which they can be harvested with minimal risk to the animal. Hematopoetic stem cells have also been discovered to be travelling in the blood stream and possess equal differentiating ability as other mesenchymal stem cells, again with a very non-invasive harvesting technique.
There has been more recent interest in the use of extra embryonic mesenchymal stem cells. Research is underway to examine the differentiating capabilities of stem cells found in the umbilical cord, yolk sac and placenta of different animals. These stem cells are thought to have more differentiating ability than their adult counterparts, including the ability to more readily form tissues of endodermal and ectodermal origin.
There is widespread controversy over the use of human embryonic stem cells. This controversy primarily targets the techniques used to derive new embryonic stem cell lines, which often requires the destruction of the blastocyst. Opposition to the use of human embryonic stem cells in research is often based on philosophical, moral, or religious objections. There is other stem cell research that does not involve the destruction of a human embryo, and such research involves adult stem cells, amniotic stem cells, and induced pluripotent stem cells.
On 23 January 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration gave clearance to Geron Corporation for the initiation of the first clinical trial of an embryonic stem-cell-based therapy on humans. The trial aimed evaluate the drug GRNOPC1, embryonic stem cell-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, on people with acute spinal cord injury. The trial was discontinued in November 2011 so that the company could focus on therapies in the "current environment of capital scarcity and uncertain economic conditions". In 2013 biotechnology and regenerative medicine company BioTime (AMEX: BTX) acquired Geron's stem cell assets in a stock transaction, with the aim of restarting the clinical trial.
Scientists have reported that MSCs when transfused immediately within few hours post thawing may show reduced function or show decreased efficacy in treating diseases as compared to those MSCs which are in log phase of cell growth(fresh), so cryopreserved MSCs should be brought back into log phase of cell growth in invitro culture before these are administered for clinical trials or experimental therapies, re-culturing of MSCs will help in recovering from the shock the cells get during freezing and thawing. Various clinical trials on MSCs have failed which used cryopreserved product immediately post thaw as compared to those clinical trials which used fresh MSCs.
Research has been conducted on horses, dogs, and cats can benefit the development of stem cell treatments in veterinary medicine and can target a wide range of injuries and diseases such as myocardial infarction, stroke, tendon and ligament damage, osteoarthritis, osteochondrosis and muscular dystrophy both in large animals, as well as humans. While investigation of cell-based therapeutics generally reflects human medical needs, the high degree of frequency and severity of certain injuries in racehorses has put veterinary medicine at the forefront of this novel regenerative approach. Companion animals can serve as clinically relevant models that closely mimic human disease.
Veterinary applications of stem cell therapy as a means of tissue regeneration have been largely shaped by research that began with the use of adult-derived mesenchymal stem cells to treat animals with injuries or defects affecting bone, cartilage, ligaments and/or tendons. There are two main categories of stem cells used for treatments: allogeneic stem cells derived from a genetically different donor within the same species and autologous mesenchymal stem cells, derived from the patient prior to use in various treatments. A third category, xenogenic stem cells, or stem cells derived from different species, are used primarily for research purposes, especially for human treatments.
Bone has a unique and well documented natural healing process that normally is sufficient to repair fractures and other common injuries. Misaligned breaks due to severe trauma, as well as treatments like tumor resections of bone cancer, are prone to improper healing if left to the natural process alone. Scaffolds composed of natural and artificial components are seeded with mesenchymal stem cells and placed in the defect. Within four weeks of placing the scaffold, newly formed bone begins to integrate with the old bone and within 32 weeks, full union is achieved. Further studies are necessary to fully characterize the use of cell-based therapeutics for treatment of bone fractures.
Stem cells have been used to treat degenerative bone diseases. The normally recommended treatment for dogs that have Legg–Calve–Perthes disease is to remove the head of the femur after the degeneration has progressed. Recently, mesenchymal stem cells have been injected directly in to the head of the femur, with success not only in bone regeneration, but also in pain reduction.
Autologous stem cell-based treatments for ligament injury, tendon injury, osteoarthritis, osteochondrosis, and sub-chondral bone cysts have been commercially available to practicing veterinarians to treat horses since 2003 in the United States and since 2006 in the United Kingdom. Autologous stem cell based treatments for tendon injury, ligament injury, and osteoarthritis in dogs have been available to veterinarians in the United States since 2005. Over 3000 privately owned horses and dogs have been treated with autologous adipose-derived stem cells. The efficacy of these treatments has been shown in double-blind clinical trials for dogs with osteoarthritis of the hip and elbow and horses with tendon damage.
Race horses are especially prone to injuries of the tendon and ligaments. Conventional therapies are very unsuccessful in returning the horse to full functioning potential. Natural healing, guided by the conventional treatments, leads to the formation of fibrous scar tissue that reduces flexibility and full joint movement. Traditional treatments prevented a large number of horses from returning to full activity and also have a high incidence of re-injury due to the stiff nature of the scarred tendon. Introduction of both bone marrow and adipose derived stem cells, along with natural mechanical stimulus promoted the regeneration of tendon tissue. The natural movement promoted the alignment of the new fibers and tendocytes with the natural alignment found in uninjured tendons. Stem cell treatment not only allowed more horses to return to full duty and also greatly reduced the re-injury rate over a three-year period.
The use of embryonic stem cells has also been applied to tendon repair. The embryonic stem cells were shown to have a better survival rate in the tendon as well as better migrating capabilities to reach all areas of damaged tendon. The overall repair quality was also higher, with better tendon architecture and collagen formed. There was also no tumor formation seen during the three-month experimental period. Long-term studies need to be carried out to examine the long-term efficacy and risks associated with the use of embryonic stem cells. Similar results have been found in small animals.
Osteoarthritis is the main cause of joint pain both in animals and humans. Horses and dogs are most frequently affected by arthritis. Natural cartilage regeneration is very limited. Different types of mesenchymal stem cells and other additives are still being researched to find the best type of cell and method for long-term treatment.
Adipose-derived mesenchymal cells are currently the most often used for stem cell treatment of osteoarthritis because of the non-invasive harvesting. This is a recently developed, non-invasive technique developed for easier clinical use. Dogs receiving this treatment showed greater flexibility in their joints and less pain.
Stem cells have successfully been used to ameliorate healing in the heart after myocardial infarction in dogs. Adipose and bone marrow derived stem cells were removed and induced to a cardiac cell fate before being injected into the heart. The heart was found to have improved contractility and a reduction in the damaged area four weeks after the stem cells were applied.
A different trial is underway for a patch made of a porous substance onto which the stem cells are "seeded" in order to induce tissue regeneration in heart defects. Tissue was regenerated and the patch was well incorporated into the heart tissue. This is thought to be due, in part, to improved angiogenesis and reduction of inflammation. Although cardiomyocytes were produced from the mesenchymal stem cells, they did not appear to be contractile. Other treatments that induced a cardiac fate in the cells before transplanting had greater success at creating contractile heart tissue.
Spinal cord injuries are one of the most common traumas brought into veterinary hospitals. Spinal injuries occur in two ways after the trauma: the primary mechanical damage, and in secondary processes, like inflammation and scar formation, in the days following the trauma. These cells involved in the secondary damage response secrete factors that promote scar formation and inhibit cellular regeneration. Mesenchymal stem cells that are induced to a neural cell fate are loaded onto a porous scaffold and are then implanted at the site of injury. The cells and scaffold secrete factors that counteract those secreted by scar forming cells and promote neural regeneration. Eight weeks later, dogs treated with stem cells showed immense improvement over those treated with conventional therapies. Dogs treated with stem cells were able to occasionally support their own weight, which has not been seen in dogs undergoing conventional therapies.
Treatments are also in clinical trials to repair and regenerate peripheral nerves. Peripheral nerves are more likely to be damaged, but the effects of the damage are not as widespread as seen in injuries to the spinal cord. Treatments are currently in clinical trials to repair severed nerves, with early success. Stem cells induced to a neural fate injected in to a severed nerve. Within four weeks, regeneration of previously damaged stem cells and completely formed nerve bundles were observed.
Stem cells are also in clinical phases for treatment in ophthalmology. Hematopoietic stem cells have been used to treat corneal ulcers of different origin of several horses. These ulcers were resistant to conventional treatments available, but quickly responded positively to the stem cell treatment. Stem cells were also able to restore sight in one eye of a horse with retinal detachment, allowing the horse to return to daily activities.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was an initial wave of companies and clinics offering stem cell therapy, while not substantiating health claims or having regulatory approval. By 2012, a second wave of companies and clinics had emerged, usually located in developing countries where medicine is less regulated and offering stem cell therapies on a medical tourism model. Like the first wave companies and clinics, they made similar strong, but unsubstantiated, claims, mainly by clinics in the United States, Mexico, Thailand, India, and South Africa. In 2018, the FDA sent a warning letter to StemGenex Biologic Laboratories in San Diego, which marketed a service in which it took body fat from people, processed it into mixtures it said contained various forms of stem cells, and administered it back to the person by inhalation, intravenously, or infusion into their spinal cords; the company said the treatment was useful for many chronic and life-threatening conditions. In 2018, the US Federal Trade Commission found health centers and an individual physician making unsubstantiated claims for stem cell therapies, and forced refunds of some $500,000.
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